• Australian gold stocks fall 2.1% to 15,006.2 points

• Gold sub-index slides for a fifth consecutive session

• Gold down over 1% to a more than two-month low on Tuesday, tracking broader market selloff and pressured by rising expectations of a U.S. interest rate hike this year [GOL/]

• Shares of heavyweights Northern Star Resources and Evolution Mining down 1.6% each

• YTD, AXGD down 20.3% vs a 0.9% drop in the broader benchmark

(Reporting by Jasmeen Ara Shaikh in Bengaluru)