Australia's S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO)(ASX: XJO) and ALL ORDINARIES (Index: ^AXAO) (ASX: XAO) indices finished lower on Thursday.
Here's a short recap of the Australian market:
- S&P/ASX 200 (Index: ^AXJO) (ASX: XJO) lower 0.40% to 6.824.00
- ALL ORDINARIES (Index: ^AXAO) (ASX: XAO) lower 0.34% to 6,933.60
- AUD/USD at US 69 cents
- Gold at US$1,477.81 an ounce
- Brent Oil at US$66.15 a barrel
One of the best-performing ASX 200 shares today was the Service Stream Limited (ASX: SSM) share price which increased over 11% after a contract win was announced.
Gold miners were some of today's top performers, the Northern Star Resources Ltd (ASX: NST) share price increased over 5% and the Saracen Mineral Holdings Limited (ASX: SAR) share price went up 3%.
The share price of Lynas Corporation Ltd (ASX: LYC) fell over 1% today despite the new plant being awarded lead agency status by the WA Government.
The Zip Co Ltd (ASX: Z1P) share price fell 0.3% today after the buy now, pay later business made an announcement regarding a code of practice for the industry.
A takeover offer sent the share price of CML Group Ltd (ASX: CGR) higher by 15.8% after confirming it had received a confidential, unsolicited, non-binding indicative and conditional offer.
The share price of Prime Media Group Limited (ASX: PRT) dropped 5% today after it failed to receive shareholder backing for the takeover.
Finally, the share price of Village Roadshow Ltd (ASX: VRL) rose by nearly 20% on takeover talks.
Here are some of today's top stories:
