(MENAFN- FxPro) Australia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Consumer Staples, Metals&Mining and IT sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 fell 0.72%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Sirtex Medical Ltd (ASX:SRX), which rose 14.39% or 3.840 points to trade at 30.520 at the close. Meanwhile, UGL Ltd (ASX:UGL) added 10.34% or 0.240 points to end at 2.560 and STW Communications Group Ltd (ASX:SGN) was up 4.39% or 0.025 points to 0.595 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Seven Group Holdings Ltd (ASX:SVW), which fell 6.16% or 0.470 points to trade at 7.160 at the close. Drillsearch Energy Ltd (ASX:DLS) declined 6.10% or 0.075 points to end at 1.155 and Technology One Ltd (ASX:TNE) was down 5.03% or 0.200 points to 3.780.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Australia Stock Exchange by 589 to 409 and 248 ended unchanged.
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 5.13% to 16.096.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.12% or 1.40 to $1188.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.75% or 0.46 to hit $59.84 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.66% or 0.43 to trade at $65.13 a barrel.
AUD/USD was up 0.20% to 0.7664, while AUD/JPY rose 0.18% to 95.08.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.29% at 97.22.
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