Investing.com – Australia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Consumer Staples, Financials and Energy sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 lost 1.07%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Arrium Ltd (ASX:ARI), which rose 10.00% or 0.010 points to trade at 0.110 at the close. Meanwhile, Transfield Services Ltd (ASX:TSE) added 8.84% or 0.095 points to end at 1.170 and UGL Ltd (ASX:UGL) was up 8.11% or 0.150 points to 2.000 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Drillsearch Energy Ltd (ASX:DLS), which fell 10.07% or 0.070 points to trade at 0.625 at the close. Worleyparsons Ltd (ASX:WOR) declined 6.36% or 0.510 points to end at 7.510 and Ten Network Holdings Ltd (ASX:TEN) was down 5.13% or 0.010 points to 0.185.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Australia Stock Exchange by 552 to 436 and 173 ended unchanged.
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 11.71% to 26.079.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.10% or 1.10 to $1132.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 1.49% or 0.68 to hit $44.55 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 1.55% or 0.78 to trade at $49.27 a barrel.
AUD/USD was down 0.33% to 0.7142, while AUD/JPY fell 0.88% to 86.53.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.27% at 95.88.