Australia stocks lower at close of trade; S&P/ASX 200 down 1.34%

Investing.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 1.34%.

The best performers of the session on the were Service Stream Ltd (ASX:), which rose 4.94% or 0.130 points to trade at 2.760 at the close. Meanwhile, Pro Medicus Ltd (ASX:) added 4.38% or 1.05 points to end at 25.05 and Avita Medical (ASX:) was up 3.70% or 0.025 points to 0.700 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Worleyparsons Ltd (ASX:), which fell 8.46% or 1.29 points to trade at 13.95 at the close. Oil Search Ltd (ASX:) declined 6.91% or 0.500 points to end at 6.740 and Idp Education Ltd (ASX:) was down 6.70% or 1.19 points to 16.58.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 1023 to 248 and 250 ended unchanged.

The , which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 15.30% to 15.873 a new 3-months high.

Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.19% or 3.05 to $1584.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.21% or 0.11 to hit $51.45 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.76% or 0.43 to trade at $56.19 a barrel.

AUD/USD was up 0.10% to 0.6698, while AUD/JPY rose 0.26% to 72.66.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 97.310.

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