Australian shares fall at the close; The S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.16% by Investing.com

Investing.com – Australia stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the , and sectors propelled shares lower.

At the close in Sydney, it lost 0.16%.

The best performers of the session on the were Nanosonics Ltd (ASX: ), which rose 22.96% or 0.62 points to trade at 3.32 at the close. Meanwhile, Idp Education Ltd (ASX: ) added 5.39% or 0.81 points to end at 15.85 and Austal Ltd (ASX: ) was up 4.44% or 0.10 points to trade at 2.35 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Zip Co Ltd (ASX: ), which fell 8.37% or 0.19 points to trade at 2.08 at the close. Deterra royalties Ltd (ASX: ) declined 6.11% or 0.24 points to 3.69 and IPH Ltd (ASX: ) traded down 5.22% or 0.35 points to end at 6.35.

Declining stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 609 to 492, with 420 ending unchanged.

which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, fell 3.53% to 11.21, a new one-month low.

Gold futures for December delivery were down 0.12%, or 3.00, at $2,552.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodity trading, crude for October delivery fell 0.08%, or 0.06, to $77.36 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 0.02 %, or 0.02, to $80.34 per barrel.

AUD/USD was unchanged 0.22% to 0.68, while AUD/JPY rose 0.36% to 98.22.

US dollar index futures were down 0.01% at 100.74.