biedexmarkets.com – Australia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Sydney, the fell 0.46%.
The best performers of the session on the were Alumina Ltd (ASX:), which rose 6.00% or 0.09 points to trade at 1.59 at the close. Meanwhile, South32 Ltd (ASX:) added 4.86% or 0.16 points to end at 3.45 and Nickel Mines Ltd (ASX:) was up 4.65% or 0.04 points to 0.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Appen Ltd (ASX:), which fell 8.70% or 0.07 points to trade at 0.74 at the close. Gold Road Resources Ltd (ASX:) declined 6.87% or 0.13 points to end at 1.70 and Nextdc Ltd (ASX:) was down 4.32% or 0.71 points to 15.81.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 825 to 380 and 416 ended unchanged.
The , which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 6.03% to 11.36.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.02% or 0.40 to $2,374.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.51% or 0.44 to hit $85.22 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.45% or 0.41 to trade at $90.04 a barrel.
AUD/USD was unchanged 0.46% to 0.65, while AUD/JPY rose 0.91% to 99.86.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 105.68.
