Australia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the A-REITs, Telecoms Services and Financials sectors led shares lower.

At the close in Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 declined 0.22%.

The best performers of the session on the S&P/ASX 200 were St Barbara Ltd (ASX:SBM), which rose 3.42% or 0.02 points to trade at 0.61 at the close. Meanwhile, Nanosonics Ltd (ASX:NAN) added 2.86% or 0.15 points to end at 5.40 and Wisetech Global Ltd (ASX:WTC) was up 2.54% or 1.81 points to 73.01 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were EML Payments Ltd (ASX:EML), which fell 4.41% or 0.03 points to trade at 0.65 at the close. Zip Co Ltd (ASX:ZIP) declined 4.35% or 0.03 points to end at 0.55 and Super Retail Group Ltd (ASX:SUL) was down 3.86% or 0.49 points to 12.21.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Sydney Stock Exchange by 786 to 473 and 472 ended unchanged.

Shares in Wisetech Global Ltd (ASX:WTC) rose to all time highs; up 2.54% or 1.81 to 73.01.

The S&P/ASX 200 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/ASX 200 options, was up 3.83% to 12.35.

Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.16% or 3.15 to $1,978.45 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.38% or 0.27 to hit $71.42 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.37% or 0.28 to trade at $75.30 a barrel.

AUD/USD was unchanged 0.17% to 0.66, while AUD/JPY fell 0.25% to 91.48.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 103.07.