Australia stocks lower at close of trade; S&P/ASX 200 down 0.62%

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At the close in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 fell 0.62%.

The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Corporate Travel Managment Ltd (ASX:CTD), which rose 6.45% or 0.59 points to trade at 9.74 at the close. Meanwhile, Flight Centre Ltd (ASX:FLT) added 6.30% or 0.63 points to end at 10.63 and News Corp B DRC (ASX:NWS) was up 5.68% or 1.05 points to 19.55 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Janus Henderson Group PLC DRC (ASX:JHG), which fell 3.54% or 1.06 points to trade at 28.90 at the close. Virgin Money PLC (ASX:VUK) declined 3.52% or 0.06 points to end at 1.58 and Resmed Inc DRC (ASX:RMD) was down 3.17% or 0.820 points to 25.060.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 642 to 615 and 352 ended unchanged.

The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 1.65% to 18.981.

Gold Futures for October delivery was up 0.02% or 0.40 to $2058.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.36% or 0.15 to hit $41.80 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.31% or 0.14 to trade at $44.95 a barrel.

AUD/USD was down 0.31% to 0.7210, while AUD/JPY fell 0.28% to 76.13.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 93.007.