Australia stocks fall on profit booking
Capital Market The Australian share market ended down after evaporating early gains on Thursday, 19 February 2015, as flood of mixed earnings results and lack of any big macroeconomic news triggering profit booking, with shares of the realty, materials and energy sectors being major losers. The S&P/ASX200 closed 11.50 points, or 0.19%, lower at 5904.20, while the All Ordinaries de-grew 8.10 points, or 0.16%, to 5869.80. Market turnover was relatively strong, with 1.59 billion shares changing hands worth of A$5.17 billion. Total of 726 stocks were up, while remaining 632 closed down.
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