Australia Market closes near 3-month high

Australia stock market finished session higher on Thursday, 03 May 2018, on the back of strong gains in miners, retailers and IT stocks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 rose 0.8% to 6,098.3 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index gained 0.8% to 6,187 points. Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 711 to 522 and 390 ended unchanged. The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 6.36% to 12.051.

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