Australia Market ends marginal down

Asia stock market finished session slight lower on Tuesday, 19 June 2018, as risk sentiments hurt by concerns about the implications on the global economy of a tariff war between the US and China after reports that US President Donald Trump was threatening to impose more tariffs on China. President Trump ordered US officials to prepare a list of additional $200 billion of imports from China, threatening to bring the US and China to the brink of an all-out trade war. ASX sectors were mixed, with fall in materials stocks offset gains in health care stocks and banks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 2 points, or 0.03%, at 6,102.1 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 3.9 points, or 0.06%, at 6,208.9 points. Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 698 to 552 and 391 ended unchanged. The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 1.93% to 12.147.

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