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At the close in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.31%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Pilbara Minerals Ltd (ASX:PLS), which rose 5.83% or 0.28 points to trade at 5.08 at the close. Meanwhile, Pendal Group Ltd (ASX:PDL) added 5.54% or 0.26 points to end at 4.95 and Star Entertainment Group Ltd (ASX:SGR) was up 5.51% or 0.15 points to 2.87 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Megaport Ltd (ASX:MP1), which fell 22.14% or 1.88 points to trade at 6.61 at the close. Nuix Ltd (ASX:NXL) declined 6.02% or 0.04 points to end at 0.62 and Zip Co Ltd (ASX:ZIP) was down 5.88% or 0.04 points to 0.64.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 688 to 558 and 390 ended unchanged.
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was down 3.54% to 18.24.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.49% or 8.10 to $1,647.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.62% or 0.51 to hit $82.58 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.14% or 0.13 to trade at $90.16 a barrel.
AUD/USD was unchanged 0.14% to 0.63, while AUD/JPY fell 0.10% to 94.09.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.16% at 112.17.