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) lower 0.51% to 6,614.10
- ALL ORDINARIES (Index: ^AXAO) (ASX: XAO) lower 0.47% to 6,728.00
- AUD/USD at US 69 cents
- Gold at US$1,491.50 an ounce
- Brent Oil at US$62.78 a barrel
The best-performing ASX 200 share today was the Whitehaven Coal Ltd (ASX: WHC) share price which rose by 5%.
The climbing oil price helped oil businesses be two of the top five performers today. The Santos Ltd (ASX: STO) share price climbed by over 4% and the Oil Search Limited (ASX: OSH) share price went up 3.8%.
It was a rough day for some of the ASX's leading growth shares. At the bottom of the pile was the WiseTech Global Ltd (ASX: WTC) share price which fell almost 7%.
Appen Ltd (ASX: APX) was another to have a tough day the office, its share price declined by 6.6%.
The TPG Telecom Ltd (ASX: TPM) share price fell by 0.3% today after the first day of its court hearing to overturn the ACCC decision to block the merger with Vodafone.
New Hope Corporation Limited's (ASX: NHC) share price went into a trading halt as the market waited on a court decision on its New Acland Stage 3 project.
Finally, the share price of iSignthis Ltd (ASX: ISX) rose another 5.1% after yesterday's pleasing operational update.
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