Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Telecoms & IT and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 gained 0.81%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Industria de Diseno Textil SA (BME:ITX), which rose 2.87% or 1.50 points to trade at 53.68 at the close. Unicaja Banco SA (BME:UNI) added 2.46% or 0.03 points to end at 1.25 and Endesa SA (BME:ELE) was up 2.41% or 0.50 points to 21.24 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Grifols SA (BME:GRLS), which lost 2.86% or 0.25 points to trade at 8.37 in late trade. Inmobiliaria Colonial SA (BME:COL) declined 2.75% or 0.15 points to end at 5.31 and Merlin Properties SA (BME:MRL) shed 1.83% or 0.19 points to 10.21.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 110 to 89 and 18 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.68% or 18.29 to $2,662.71 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.32% or 0.22 to hit $67.78 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.36% or 0.26 to trade at $71.58 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.84% to 1.05, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.11% to 0.83.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.60% at 106.47.