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At the close in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.12%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Orora Ltd (ASX:ORA), which rose 7.97% or 0.20 points to trade at 2.71 at the close. Meanwhile, Whitehaven Coal Ltd (ASX:WHC) added 5.34% or 0.055 points to end at 1.085 and Sandfire Resources NL (ASX:SFR) was up 4.55% or 0.200 points to 4.600 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Megaport Ltd (ASX:MP1), which fell 13.16% or 2.21 points to trade at 14.58 at the close. Mesoblast Ltd (ASX:MSB) declined 4.41% or 0.150 points to end at 3.250 and Graincorp Ltd (ASX:GNC) was down 4.00% or 0.16 points to 3.84.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 648 to 623 and 315 ended unchanged.
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was down 1.28% to 18.875 a new 1-month low.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.44% or 8.35 to $1923.75 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.62% or 0.26 to hit $41.44 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.72% or 0.31 to trade at $42.85 a barrel.
AUD/USD was up 0.64% to 0.7091, while AUD/JPY rose 0.35% to 74.60.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.30% at 92.775.
