Australia Shares down on materials

Australian equity market finished session down on Monday, 27 March 2017, in the wake of Wall Street's fall on Friday, with mining stocks accounting for most of the slide. At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index surrendered 6.80 points, or 0.12%, to 5,746.70, while the broader All Ordinaries index lost 6.90 points, or 0.12%, to 5,789.30. Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Australia Stock Exchange by 520 to 466 and 348 ended unchanged. The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 6.53% to 12.648.

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