Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange on Monday, Jan 5:

BDR – BEADELL RESOURCES – up three cents, or 13.33 per cent, at 25.5 cents

Gold miner Beadell Resources’s share price has risen by more than 10 per cent even though its gold sales for 2014 were below guidance.

STO – SANTOS – down six cents, or 0.73 per cent, at $8.19

WPL – WOODSIDE PETROLEUM – up 12 cents, or 0.32 per cent, at $38.13

OSH – OIL SEARCH – steady at $7.89

ORG – ORIGIN ENERGY – up one cent, or 0.09 per cent, at $11.68

Oil stocks are on the up despite crude oil prices posting the the steepest annual fall in 2014 since the global financial crisis.