Investing.com – Australia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Gold, Metals & Mining and Materials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 declined 0.00%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd (AX:LNG), which rose 6.48% or 0.035 points to trade at 0.575 at the close. Meanwhile, Spotless Fp (AX:SPO) added 6.22% or 0.068 points to end at 1.153 and Select Harvests Ltd (AX:SHV) was up 5.02% or 0.320 points to 6.690 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were ALS Ltd (AX:ALQ), which fell 9.13% or 0.410 points to trade at 4.080 at the close. Northern Star Resources Ltd (AX:NST) declined 5.83% or 0.260 points to end at 4.200 and Bellamys Australia Ltd (AX:BAL) was down 4.26% or 0.490 points to 11.000.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Australia Stock Exchange by 584 to 455 and 302 ended unchanged.
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 0.70% to 16.190.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.92% or 11.20 to $1205.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.34% or 0.17 to hit $49.16 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.52% or 0.26 to trade at $49.69 a barrel.
AUD/USD was down 0.29% to 0.7160, while AUD/JPY rose 0.53% to 79.69.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.23% at 95.95.