Investing.com – Australia equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Energy, Resources and Metals & Mining sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 declined 0.35%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Arrium Ltd (ASX:ARI), which rose 4.17% or 0.005 points to trade at 0.125 at the close. Mineral Resources Ltd (ASX:MIN) added 3.69% or 0.200 points to end at 5.620 and Corp Trav F (ASX:CTD) was up 3.45% or 0.370 points to 11.080 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UGL Ltd (ASX:UGL), which lost 8.31% or 0.165 points to trade at 1.820 in late trade. Monadelphous Group Ltd (ASX:MND) declined 6.43% or 0.550 points to end at 8.000 and Independence Group NL (ASX:IGO) shed 5.82% or 0.220 points to 3.560.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 541 to 434 and 173 ended unchanged on the Sydney Stock Exchange.
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 4.95% to 15.269.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.15% or 1.60 to $1096.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.88% or 0.41 to hit $46.70 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.88% or 0.46 to trade at $51.75 a barrel.
AUD/USD was down 0.14% to 0.7298, while AUD/JPY fell 0.01% to 90.52.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.03% at 97.29.