However, natural-gas ETFs did buck the downward trend and ended with gains.
Treasuries were little changed following news over the weekend that PIMCO’s Bill Gross stepped up his bearish wager on U.S. debt.
In U.S. stock ETFs, the tech-heavy PowerShares QQQ (NasdaqGM: QQQ) led the decliners as top holding Apple fell.
A Japanese-stock ETF was fractionally lower in late U.S. trading Monday after Tokyo was hit by another aftershock.
Elsewhere, the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund (NYSEArca: EEM) lost over 1% while Energy Select Sector SPDR (NYSEArca: XLE) declined more than 2%.
For full disclosure, Tom Lydon’s clients own SLV.