Australia Market ends 0.4% down

Australian share market finished lower on first trading session of the week, Monday, 18 April 2016, with commodity-linked stocks being major losers on tracking pullback in crude oil prices after talks between major producers to freeze oil output collapsed over the weekend. At close of trade, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 declined 20.40 points, or 0.4%, to 5137.10. The broader All Ordinaries lost 19.20 points, or 0.37%, to 5204.90. Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Australia Stock Exchange by 516 to 497 and 337 ended unchanged.

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