Category: Stock Market
Australia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Energy, Resources and Metals&Mining sectors led shares lower.At the close in Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.36%.The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd (AX:LNG), which rose 21.21% or 0.105 points to trade at 0.600 at the close. Meanwhile, Select Harvests Ltd (AX:SHV) added 6.26% or 0.280 points to end at 4.750 and APN News&Media Ltd (AX:APN) was up 5.60% or 0.033 points to 0.613 in late trade.The worst performers of the session were Qantas Airways Ltd (AX:QAN), which fell 11.08% or 0.450 points to trade at 3.610 at the close. Santos Ltd (AX:STO) declined 7.07% or 0.295 points to end at 3.875 and Worleyparsons Ltd (AX:WOR) was down 6.97% or 0.440 points to 5.870.Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Australia Stock Exchange by 516 to 497 and 337 ended unchanged.The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 8.79% to 16.972.Gold for June delivery was up 0.23% or 2.90 to $1237.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 4.32% or 1.80 to hit $39.91 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 4.01% or 1.73 to trade at $41.37 a barrel.AUD/USD was down 0.75% to 0.7667, while AUD/JPY fell 1.48% to 82.79.The US Dollar Index was up 0.04% at 94.72.
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