Investing.com – South Africa stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Industrials, Financials & Industrials and Industrials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Johannesburg, the FTSE/JSE Top 40 declined 1.34%.
The best performers of the session on the FTSE/JSE Top 40 were Nedbank Group Ltd (JO:NEDJ), which rose 2.30% or 555 points to trade at 24705 at the close. Meanwhile, AngloGold Ashanti Ltd (JO:ANGJ) added 1.32% or 141 points to end at 10791 and Shoprite Holdings Ltd (JO:SHPJ) was up 1.05% or 179 points to 17179 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Naspers Ltd (JO:NPNJn), which fell 4.71% or 9000 points to trade at 182264 at the close. Caphold (JO:CPIJ) declined 4.12% or 1981.00 points to end at 46101.00 and Sasol Ltd (JO:SOLJ) was down 4.02% or 1789 points to 42700.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange by 156 to 87 and 9 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 2.58% or 1.43 to $54.09 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 3.32% or 2.00 to hit $58.31 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.11% or 1.30 to trade at $1166.50 a troy ounce.
USD/ZAR was up 0.49% to 12.3806, while EUR/ZAR rose 0.32% to 13.7286.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.15% at 96.23.