Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic, Financial Services & Real Estate and Telecoms & IT sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 added 0.62%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Iberdrola (MC:IBE), which rose 1.92% or 0.136 points to trade at 7.206 at the close. International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (MC:ICAG) added 1.51% or 0.103 points to end at 6.924 and B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) was up 1.46% or 0.025 points to 1.733 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Acerinox (MC:ACX), which lost 1.53% or 0.185 points to trade at 11.870 in late trade. Grifols SA (MC:GRLS) declined 0.67% or 0.175 points to end at 26.070 and Acciona (MC:ANA) shed 0.62% or 0.520 points to 83.470.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 106 to 63 and 13 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.92% or 11.59 to $1244.81 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.77% or 0.33 to hit $43.34 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.52% or 0.24 to trade at $45.99 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.08% to 1.1186, while EUR/GBP fell 0.03% to 0.8796.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 97.06.