Asia stock market finished session slight lower on Thursday, 14 June 2018, as softer than expected domestic job figures and downbeat industrial activity data out of China weighed on a market already under pressure from overnight falls on Wall Street. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed down 6.9 points, or 0.11%, at 6,016.6 points, while the broader All Ordinaries was down 3.5 points, or 0.06%, at 6,129.6 points.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 606 to 589 and 439 ended unchanged. The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was down 3.56% to 11.491.
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