{"id":77750,"date":"2024-03-13T00:43:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T05:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/australia-stocks-higher-at-close-of-trade-sp-asx-200-up-0-22\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T00:43:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T05:43:26","slug":"australia-stocks-higher-at-close-of-trade-sp-asx-200-up-0-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/australia-stocks-higher-at-close-of-trade-sp-asx-200-up-0-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia stocks higher at close of trade; S&#038;P\/ASX 200 up 0.22%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"69\">\n<div id=\"imgCarousel\" class=\"imgCarousel\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Australia stocks higher at close of trade; S&#038;P\/ASX 200 up 0.22%\" id=\"carouselImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i-invdn-com.investing.com\/news\/LYNXNPEE7J009_L.jpg\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"text\">\u00a9 Reuters. Australia stocks higher at close of trade; S&#038;P\/ASX 200 up 0.22%<\/span><br \/>\n<i class=\"imgGrad\"><\/i>\n<\/div>\n<p>Investing.com \u2013 Australia stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the ,  and  sectors led shares higher.<\/p>\n<p>At the close in Sydney, the  rose 0.22%.<\/p>\n<p>The best performers of the session on the  were Nuix\u00a0Ltd (ASX:), which rose 5.00% or 0.10 points to trade at 2.10 at the close. Meanwhile, <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Corporation\"><span itemprop=\"name\"> Pointsbet Holdings Ltd <\/span><\/span> (ASX:) added 4.88% or 0.04 points to end at 0.86 and Nine Entertainment Co Holdings Ltd (ASX:) was up 3.05% or 0.05 points to 1.69 in late trade.<\/p>\n<p>The worst performers of the session were <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Corporation\"><span itemprop=\"name\"> Appen Ltd <\/span><\/span> (ASX:), which fell 10.19% or 0.11 points to trade at 0.97 at the close. Omni Bridgeway Ltd (ASX:) declined 5.23% or 0.08 points to end at 1.45 and Resolute Mining Ltd (ASX:) was down 3.95% or 0.02 points to 0.37.<\/p>\n<p>Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 569 to 547 and 346 ended unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>The , which measures the implied volatility of S&#038;P\/ASX 200 options, was down 7.47% to 11.60.<\/p>\n<p>Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.07% or 1.55 to $2,164.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 0.68% or 0.53 to hit $78.09 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 0.65% or 0.53 to trade at $82.45 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>AUD\/USD was unchanged 0.11% to 0.66, while AUD\/JPY rose 0.05% to 97.59.<\/p>\n<p>The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 102.53.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Reuters. Australia stocks higher at close of trade; S&#038;P\/ASX 200 up 0.22% Investing.com \u2013 Australia stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher. At the close in Sydney, the rose 0.22%. The best performers of the session on the were Nuix\u00a0Ltd (ASX:), which rose 5.00% or 0.10 points to trade at 2.10 at the close. Meanwhile, Pointsbet Holdings Ltd (ASX:) added 4.88% or 0.04 points to end at 0.86 and Nine Entertainment Co Holdings Ltd (ASX:) was up 3.05% or 0.05 points to 1.69 in late trade. The worst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":77751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,49,50,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}