Australia's S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO)(ASX: XJO) and ALL ORDINARIES (Index: ^AXAO) (ASX: XAO) indices finished lower on Tuesday.
Here's a short recap of the Australian market:
- S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO) (ASX: XJO) down 0.87% to 6,022.80
- ALL ORDINARIES (Index: ^AXAO) (ASX: XAO) down 0.85% to 6,135.30
- AUD/USD at US 80.7 cents
- Gold at US$1,336.54 an ounce
- Brent Oil at US$68.96 a barrel
The ASX indices have declined by today, with the ASX200 close to going under 6,000.
The biggest rise in the ASX200 today came from Fletcher Building Limited (ASX: FBU), it rose by 3.55% on no news.
The next best performance came from G8 Education Ltd (ASX: GEM), it rose by 3.05% on a broker upgrade.
InvoCare Limited (ASX: IVC) rose by 2.36% today on no news, investors must have seen value in the share price and jumped on it.
The Harvey Norman Holdings Limited (ASX: HVN) share price rose just over 2% with UBS naming it as one of the stocks it think will do well from reporting season.
Investors were not impressed by Navitas Limited's (ASX: NVT) half-year report, the share price dropped by 9.35%.
The market was also unimpressed by Credit Corp Group Limited's (ASX: CCP) half-year report, the share price has plunged by 8.07%.
In smaller cap news, LiveTiles Ltd (ASX: LVT) released its second-quarter update, investors liked what they saw initially, but the share price finished 2.5% down.
Finally, Village Roadshow Ltd (ASX: VRL) disappointed shareholders with a poor trading update. The share price didn't make for good viewing, it went down 10.7% today.
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