Australia's S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO)(ASX: XJO) and ALL ORDINARIES (Index: ^AXAO) (ASX: XAO) indices finished higher on Friday.
Here's a short recap of the Australian market:
- S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO) (ASX: XJO) higher 1.49% to 6,604.20
- ALL ORDINARIES (Index: ^AXAO) (ASX: XAO) higher 1.40% to 6,698.20
- AUD/USD at US 67 cents
- Gold at US$1,527.52 an ounce
- Brent Oil at US$60.97 a barrel
The best-performing ASX 200 share today was the ship building business Austal Limited (ASX: ASB), investors were pleased with its FY19 report.
The share price of Splitit Ltd (ASX: SPT) rocketed higher by 37.5% after the market learned of the growth numbers in its FY19 result.
The Appen Ltd (ASX: APX) share price recovered 6.8% today with investors seeing an opportunity.
The Harvey Norman Holdings Limited (ASX: HVN) share price dropped 6.2% after reporting its FY19 result.
The share price of Sezzle Inc (ASX: SZL) fell 1.2% after the buy now, pay later company reported its result.
Another business to see its share price react to a report today was Freedom Foods Group Ltd (ASX: FNP) which rose 25.3%.
Debt collector Collection House Limited (ASX: CLH) saw its share price climb 10.5% after a pleasing FY19 report.
Finally, the share price of Resolute Mining Limited (ASX: RSG) decolined around 3% despite a solid report.
Here are some of today's top stories:
