Investing.com – Australia stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher.

The rose was 1.08% at the Sydney close.

These were the best performers of the session Pointsbet Holdings Ltd (ASX) climbed 16.40%, or 0.41 point to close at 2.91. Tabcorp Holdings Ltd. (ASX:), which gained 4.66% or 0.05 points to trade at 2.91. Credit Corp Group Ltd (ASX) traded up 4.19%, or 0.93 points, to 23.10 late trade.

They were also the session’s worst performers Appen Ltd (ASX:), fell 20.92% (1.73 points) to close at 6.54 Resolute Mining Ltd. (ASX 🙂 lost 5.17% (or 0.02 points) to finish at 0.28. CSR Ltd. was also down, displaying a drop of 4.69% (or 0.23 points) to 4.67.

The Sydney Stock Exchange saw rising stocks surpass declining stocks by 770, 605 and 427 respectively.

CSR Ltd. shares (ASX) plunged to 52 week lows.

The , which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was down 2.49% to 15.30.

For June delivery, Gold Futures rose 0.38% to $1854.65 or 7.05 a troy an ounce. Other commodities traded included Crude oil unchanged for July delivery at $114.09/barrel, and August Brent oil contracts rose 0.17 or 0.19 respectively to trade at $114.36/barrel.

While AUD/USD was steady at 0.71, AUD/JPY increased 0.51% and reached 90.70.

US Dollar Index Futures were down 0.2% to 101.64