Investing.com – Australia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Energy, Resources and A-REITs sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 fell 0.50%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Bluescope Steel Ltd (AX:BSL), which rose 7.61% or 0.445 points to trade at 6.295 at the close. Meanwhile, Aconex Ltd (AX:ACX) added 7.21% or 0.410 points to end at 6.100 and Mesoblast Ltd (AX:MSB) was up 6.32% or 0.120 points to 2.020 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Flight Centre Ltd (AX:FLT), which fell 9.80% or 3.610 points to trade at 33.230 at the close. Spotless Fp (AX:SPO) declined 4.62% or 0.055 points to end at 1.135 and Myer Holdings Ltd (AX:MYR) was down 3.73% or 0.045 points to 1.160.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Australia Stock Exchange by 548 to 479 and 310 ended unchanged.
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 2.99% to 17.780.
Gold for June delivery was down 0.21% or 2.65 to $1250.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 1.07% or 0.52 to hit $47.89 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.90% or 0.44 to trade at $48.28 a barrel.
AUD/USD was up 0.25% to 0.7241, while AUD/JPY fell 0.04% to 79.53.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.04% at 95.25.