Australia's S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO)(ASX: XJO) and ALL ORDINARIES (Index: ^AXAO) (ASX: XAO) indices finished higher on Friday.
Here's a short recap of the Australian market:
- S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO) (ASX: XJO) higher 0.15% to 6,185.50
- ALL ORDINARIES (Index: ^AXAO) (ASX: XAO) higher 0.11% to 6,301.10
- AUD/USD at US 71 cents
- Gold at US$1,197.55 an ounce
- Brent Oil at US$85.07 a barrel
The best-performing ASX 200 share today was rare earth miner business Lynas Corporation Ltd (ASX: LYC), its share price rose 9.5%.
Shares of Carsales.Com Ltd (ASX: CAR) went up 3.5% after it received some broker upgrades.
The share price of Wesfarmers Ltd (ASX: WES) went up 0.3% this afternoon after it made some announcements regarding the Coles spin-off. The Woolworths Group Ltd (ASX: WOW) share price rose 1.6% too.
Oil & gas business Beach Energy Ltd (ASX: BPT) shares went down 3.7% after it announced the sale of a stake of one of its assets and downgrading FY19 expectations.
Machine learning business Appen Ltd (ASX: APX) shares fell 4.1%, making it the worst faller in the ASX 200.
Shares of Afterpay Touch Group Ltd (ASX: APT) fell 0.2% after a potential competitor could cause it trouble in the future in the US.
Finally, one of the top performers in the ASX 200 was gold miner St Barbara Ltd (ASX: SBM) – it went up 6.3% today.
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