Investing.com – Australia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Telecoms Services, Gold and Consumer Discretionary sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.05%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Beach Energy Ltd (AX:BPT), which rose 6.72% or 0.040 points to trade at 0.635 at the close. Meanwhile, South32 Ltd (AX:S32) added 4.71% or 0.130 points to end at 2.890 and Virtus Health Ltd (AX:VRT) was up 3.53% or 0.190 points to 5.580 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Galaxy Resources Ltd (AX:GXY), which fell 4.02% or 0.078 points to trade at 1.853 at the close. Medibank Private Ltd (AX:MPL) declined 3.79% or 0.110 points to end at 2.790 and CYBG PLC (AX:CYB) was down 3.29% or 0.155 points to 4.555.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 578 to 521 and 362 ended unchanged.
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 2.91% to 13.390.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.26% or 3.14 to $1230.64 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.17% or 0.08 to hit $46.62 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.22% or 0.11 to trade at $49.02 a barrel.
AUD/USD was down 0.22% to 0.7813, while AUD/JPY fell 0.09% to 88.02.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 94.98.