Investing.com – Australia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Consumer Staples, Healthcare and Telecoms Services sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 declined 0.01%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Sai Global Ltd (AX:SAI), which rose 29.53% or 1.060 points to trade at 4.650 at the close. Meanwhile, Whitehaven Coal Ltd (AX:WHC) added 7.71% or 0.185 points to end at 2.585 and APN Outdoor Group Ltd (AX:APO) was up 3.80% or 0.200 points to 5.470 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Orocobre Ltd (AX:ORE), which fell 3.30% or 0.120 points to trade at 3.520 at the close. Sandfire Resources NL (AX:SFR) declined 2.89% or 0.160 points to end at 5.370 and Infigen Energy (AX:IFN) was down 2.73% or 0.023 points to 0.802.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Australia Stock Exchange by 535 to 514 and 337 ended unchanged.
Shares in Sai Global Ltd (AX:SAI) rose to 52-week highs; gaining 29.53% or 1.060 to 4.650.
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 5.84% to 13.274.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.28% or 3.75 to $1337.95 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 0.88% or 0.39 to hit $44.87 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.90% or 0.42 to trade at $46.90 a barrel.
AUD/USD was up 0.03% to 0.7624, while AUD/JPY fell 0.12% to 76.91.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.04% at 95.37.