It has been a relatively muted start to the trading week on Monday morning with the S&P/ASX 200 Index (Index: ^AXJO) (ASX: XJO) down 0.17% at 12:06 pm. The subdued start to the week follows Wall Street hitting a new intra-day high last Friday before US stocks were sold-off to end the session lower.
Sectors are mostly down. Materials have slipped slightly as the market awaits economic data from China which is due to be released later today, while industrials are down 1%. The health care sector and gold are the only gainers.
Here are the top five best performing stocks in the index at 12:13 pm today:
- Kathmandu Holdings Ltd (ASX: KMD) has jumped 8.7% to $3.37
- Beadell Resources Ltd (ASX: BDR) has rallied 5.4% to 68.5 cents
- Evolution FPO (ASX: EVN) has risen 3.6% to 93.2 cents
- Newcrest Mining Limited (ASX: NCM) has added 3.5% to $10.92
- Regis Resources Limited (ASX: RRL) has gained 3.3% to $2.49
These are the five worst performing stocks at 12:13 pm today:
- Metcash Limited (ASX: MTS) has fallen 5.6% to $2.69
- Aristocrat Leisure Limited (ASX: ALL) is down 3.9% to $5.23
- Fletcher Building Limited (Australia) (ASX: FBU) has lost 3.6% to $8.85
- Lynas Corporation Limited (ASX: LYC) has dropped 3.5% to 22.2 cents
- Mesoblast limited Ltd (ASX: MSB) has slipped 3.4% to $5.35
