Investing.com – China equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Travel & Leisure, Technology Hardware & Equipment and Media sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Shanghai, the Shanghai Composite declined 0.48%, while the SZSE Component index lost 0.30%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Shanghai Composite were Hubei Zhenhua Chemical Co Ltd (SS:603067), which rose 10.03% or 1.000 points to trade at 10.970 at the close. ADD Industry Zhejiang Co Ltd (SS:603089) added 10.01% or 2.38 points to end at 26.16 and Hunan Copote Science Technology Co Ltd (SS:600476) was up 9.99% or 1.670 points to 18.390 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Shenji Group Kunming Machine Tool Co Ltd (SS:600806), which lost 10.07% or 0.280 points to trade at 2.500 in late trade. Jien Nickel (SS:600432) declined 10.00% or 0.290 points to end at 2.610 and Henan Yinge Industrial Investment Co Ltd (SS:600069) shed 9.96% or 0.500 points to 4.520.
The top performers on the SZSE Component were Lander Sports Development Co Ltd (SZ:000558) which rose 10.11% to 5.01, Hunan TV & Broadcast Intermediary Co Ltd (SZ:000917) which was up 9.97% to settle at 7.17 and Shandong Humon Smelting Co Ltd (SZ:002237) which gained 4.68% to close at 11.64.
The worst performers were Hybio Pharmaceutical (SZ:300199) which was down 10.01% to 16.45 in late trade, Hunan China Sun Pharma Machinery (SZ:300216) which lost 10.01% to settle at 8.36 and Vtron Technologies Ltd (SZ:002308) which was down 9.97% to 9.750 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 885 to 438 and 60 ended unchanged on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
The CBOE China Etf Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Shanghai Composite options, was unchanged 0.00% to 19.34.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.13% or 1.70 to $1301.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.40% or 0.26 to hit $65.48 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.55% or 0.42 to trade at $76.04 a barrel.
USD/CNY was down 0.08% to 6.4017, while EUR/CNY rose 0.29% to 7.5621.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 93.42.