AUSTRALIAN STOCKS FALL: Here's what you need to know
Australian shares closed lower to start the week.
Today’s scoreboard:
ASX 200: 5,725.90 -21.21 (-0.37%)
All Ordinaries: 5,780.00 -18.51 (-0.32%)
AUD/USD: 0.7923 -0.0008 (-0.10%)
The local market started the week lower as banks fell, with the ASX200 financials index down by 0.3%.
All four of the major banks finished lower, led by CBA which closed down more than 1%.
Both BHP (+0.9%) and Rio Tinto (+1.4%) finished higher, while Fortescue closed up by 6.55% after reporting its full-year results this morning.
Among the big losers, BlueScope Steel fell by 21.83% after downgrading its earnings forecast and revealing that it was the subject of an ACCC investigation.
Vocus Group also suffered a heavy fall, crashing by 16.15% after coming out of a trading halt on news that competing private equity companies had pulled their bid for the company.
Online electronics retailer kogan.com roared ahead by another 17.24%. The stock is now up by around 44% since announcing its full-year earnings last week.
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