Australia stocks higher at close of trade; S&P/ASX 200 up 0.92%

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At the close in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.92%.

The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Virgin Money PLC (ASX:VUK), which rose 14.63% or 0.36 points to trade at 2.82 at the close. Meanwhile, Corporate Travel Managment Ltd (ASX:CTD) added 6.38% or 1.11 points to end at 18.50 and Carsales.Com Ltd (ASX:CAR) was up 6.25% or 1.25 points to 21.25 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Northern Star Resources Ltd (ASX:NST), which fell 4.21% or 0.550 points to trade at 12.510 at the close. Saracen Mineral Holdings Ltd (ASX:SAR) declined 4.09% or 0.20 points to end at 4.69 and South32 Ltd (ASX:S32) was down 2.87% or 0.080 points to 2.710.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 845 to 512 and 357 ended unchanged.

The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was down 8.91% to 14.497.

Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.27% or 5.00 to $1838.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.69% or 0.38 to hit $55.14 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.24% or 0.14 to trade at $57.94 a barrel.

AUD/USD was up 0.11% to 0.7614, while AUD/JPY rose 0.22% to 80.02.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.11% at 91.127.

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