Australia equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the S&P/ASX 200 Information Technology, S&P/ASX 200 Health Care and S&P/ASX 200 Telecom Services sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 declined 0.21%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Woodside Energy Ltd (ASX:WDS), which rose 7.41% or 1.74 points to trade at 25.21 at the close. Westgold Resources Ltd (ASX:WGX) added 6.43% or 0.20 points to end at 3.31 and Evolution Mining Ltd (ASX:EVN) was up 5.50% or 0.48 points to 9.20 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Polynovo Ltd (ASX:PNV), which fell 6.72% or 0.09 points to trade at 1.18 in late trade. Credit Corp Group Ltd (ASX:CCP) declined 5.89% or 0.81 points to end at 12.94 and Qantas Airways Ltd (ASX:QAN) down 4.94% or 0.53 points to 10.19.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones by 690 to 416 and 493 ended unchanged on the Sydney Stock Exchange.
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 7.97% to 12.16.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 1.29% or 44.05 to $3,446.45 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 7.64% or 5.20 to hit $73.24 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 7.11% or 4.93 to trade at $74.29 a barrel.
AUD/USD was down 0.89% to 0.65, while AUD/JPY fell 0.87% to 92.92
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