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

At the close in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 added 2.27%.

The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Appen Ltd (ASX: APX ), which rose 9.62% or 0.08 points to trade at 0.86 at the close. Meanwhile, Mesoblast Ltd (ASX: MSB ) added 8.98% or 0.15 points to end at 1.76 and Whitehaven Coal Ltd (ASX: WHC ) was up 8.74% or 0.38 points to 4.73 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Domain Holdings Australia Ltd (ASX: DHG ), which fell 4.85% or 0.20 points to trade at 3.92 at the close. Platinum Asset Management Ltd (ASX: PTM ) declined 3.57% or 0.02 points to end at 0.54 and AMP Ltd (ASX: AMP ) was down 2.61% or 0.03 points to 1.12.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 895 to 287 and 337 ended unchanged.

Shares in Platinum Asset Management Ltd (ASX: PTM ) fell to all time lows; falling 3.57% or 0.02 to 0.54.

The S&P/ASX 200 VIX , which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was down 22.32% to 20.90.

Gold Futures for June delivery was up 1.81% or 53.81 to $3,027.41 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.92% or 0.56 to hit $61.26 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.79% or 0.51 to trade at $64.72 a barrel.

AUD/USD was unchanged 0.23% to 0.61, while AUD/JPY rose 0.53% to 89.21.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.33% at 102.64.