Australia's S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO)(ASX: XJO) and ALL ORDINARIES (Index: ^AXAO) (ASX: XAO) indices finished higher on Wednesday.
Here's a short recap of the Australian market:
- S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO) (ASX: XJO) higher 0.45% to 6,500.60
- ALL ORDINARIES (Index: ^AXAO) (ASX: XAO) higher 0.54% to 6,600.80
- AUD/USD at US 67 cents
- Gold at US$1,545.79 an ounce
- Brent Oil at US$60.14 a barrel
The best-performing ASX 200 share today was the Appen Ltd (ASX: APX) share price, the AI and machine learning business rose by 10.7%.
The share price of buy now, pay later company Afterpay Touch Group Ltd (ASX: APT) went up by 9.3% after reporting more impressive growth in its FY19 result.
It was another very painful day for remote data business Speedcast International Ltd (ASX: SDA), its share price dropped another 33%.
Infant formula business Bellamy's Australia Ltd (ASX: BAL) saw its share price decline 1.4% after reporting a fall in its FY19 profit.
The LiveHire Ltd (ASX: LVH) share price ended the day flat after it revealed its FY19 report to the ASX.
National Storage REIT (ASX: NSR) was another business to report today, its FY19 figures sent the share price higher by 1.3%.
The Macquarie Group Ltd (ASX: MQG) share price was unmoved after it went into a trading halt to raise at least $1 billion from investors to fund investment opportunities.
Finally, the share price of Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd (ASX: VAH) fell by 6% after reporting another difficult period for the airline.
Here are some of today's top stories:
