Australia's S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO)(ASX: XJO) and ALL ORDINARIES (Index: ^AXAO) (ASX: XAO) indices finished lower on Monday.
Here's a short recap of the Australian market:
- S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO) (ASX: XJO) lower 1.38% to 6,100.30
- ALL ORDINARIES (Index: ^AXAO) (ASX: XAO) lower 1.31% to 6,218.60
- AUD/USD at US 71 cents
- Gold at US$1,204.65 an ounce
- Brent Oil at US$83.44 a barrel
The best-performing ASX 200 share today was accounting & bookkeeping software business Myob Group Ltd (ASX: MYO), its share price rose 19% on a takeover offer from KKR.
Shares of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ASX: ANZ) fell 2.6% after the big bank informed investors of a number of costs that will be accounted for in the upcoming full-year result.
The falling oil price is affecting the Beach Energy Ltd (ASX: BPT) shares, it fell nearly 6% today.
Shares of MNF Group Ltd (ASX: MNF) rose by 4.2% after it made an acquisition offer for all of Inabox Group Ltd's (ASX: IAB) operating businesses. The Inabox share price rose 41% today.
The share price of data centre business Nextdc Ltd (ASX: NXT) declined 1.8% today after it made a takeover offer for Asia Pacific Data Centre Group (ASX: AJD), which went up 7.5% in response.
Finally, funeral business InvoCare Limited (ASX: IVC) shares fell 4.3% today after reporting it is facing weak trading conditions.
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