Australia ASX200 ends 0.87% lower

Australian share market finished session in negative territory on Tuesday, 30 January 2018, on following weak lead from Wall Street overnight as investors took profits following recent rallies and awaited a deluge of company and economic announcements. All sectors ended in the red with shares of the mining, energy and healthcare sectors being the worst performers. At the close of trade, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 52.6 points or 0.87% at 6,022.8 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 52.3 points or 0.85%, at 6,135.3 points. Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 860 to 403 and 349 ended unchanged. The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 9.57% to 12.817 a new 1-month high.

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