Australia Market ekes out modest gains

Australian equity market finished choppy session marginally higher on Tuesday, 24 October 2017, as gains in material and resource stocks offset losses among banking counters. The S&P/ASX 200 index perked up 3.638 points, or 0.06%, to 5,897.6. Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 589 to 582 and 350 ended unchanged. The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was down 0.70% to 11.251.

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