Australia's S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO)(ASX: XJO) and ALL ORDINARIES (Index: ^AXAO) (ASX: XAO) indices finished lower on Monday.
Here's a short recap of the Australian market:
- S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO) (ASX: XJO) lower 0.43% to 6,241.50
- ALL ORDINARIES (Index: ^AXAO) (ASX: XAO) lower 0.40% to 6,326.70
- AUD/USD at US 74 cents
- Gold at US$1,241.95 an ounce
- Brent Oil at US$74.85 a barrel
The best-performing ASX 200 share today was G8 Education Ltd (ASX: GEM), it went up 5.5% on suggestions that it could be a takeover target.
At the other end of the share market, resource shares were some of the worst performers. Orocobre Limited (ASX: ORE) dropped by 4.8%, Pilbara Minerals Ltd (ASX: PLS) fell by 4.2%, Western Areas Ltd (ASX: WSA) declined by 4.13% and Mineral Resources Limited (ASX: MIN) went down by 3.2%.
Gold miner Evolution Mining Limited (ASX: EVN) also was amongst the biggest falls, it dropped by 4.2%.
Whitehaven Coal Ltd (ASX: WHC) reported its quarterly production result today, but the market wasn't impressed and sent the share price down 2.1%.
The Emeco Holdings Limited (ASX: EHL) share price fell by 1.4% after revealing its FY18 result.
The share price of Accent Group Ltd (ASX: AX1) dropped by 12.4% with shares coming out of escrow.
Finally, the share price of Rural Funds Group (ASX: RFF) fell by 3.8% as investors soured on the capital raising idea.
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