Australia's S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO)(ASX: XJO) and ALL ORDINARIES (Index: ^AXAO) (ASX: XAO) indices finished lower on Friday.
Here's a short recap of the Australian market:
- S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO) (ASX: XJO) lower 0.11% to 5,921.80
- ALL ORDINARIES (Index: ^AXAO) (ASX: XAO) lower 0.08% to 6,011.00
- AUD/USD at US 72 cents
- Gold at US$1,224.20 an ounce
- Brent Oil at US$70.78 a barrel
The best-performing ASX 200 share today was G8 Education Ltd (ASX: GEM), the childcare provider went up 11.3%.
Shares of Lendlease Group (ASX: LLC) fell 18.3% due to a negative update regarding its Australian engineering and services business.
The share price of Corporate Travel Management Ltd (ASX: CTD) fell 8.4% after VGI made its reply in the ongoing short attack.
Shares of Afterpay Touch Group Ltd (ASX: APT) fell 6.6% today, ending the turbulent week on a low despite the promising update it gave earlier in the week.
The share price of Adacel Technologies Ltd (ASX: ADA) fell a huge 41.7% after downgrading profit expectations.
Shares of property portal business REA Group Limited (ASX: REA) rose a further 2.7% today after reporting solid revenue growth in its first quarter.
Pharmacy business Sigma Healthcare Ltd (ASX: SIG) went up 4.9% today, making it the second best performer in the ASX 200.
Finally, it was negative day for lithium business Orocobre Limited (ASX: ORE) – it fell 7.2%.
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