Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Building & Construction, Consumer Services and Telecoms & IT sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 1.46%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Gamesa (MC:GAM), which rose 5.80% or 0.980 points to trade at 17.880 at the close. Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS) added 5.76% or 0.257 points to end at 4.720 and Int.Airl.Grp (MC:ICAG) was up 4.49% or 0.197 points to 4.582 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banco Popular (MC:POP), which lost 1.11% or 0.013 points to trade at 1.161 in late trade. Endesa (MC:ELE) declined 0.11% or 0.020 points to end at 18.240 and Mapfre (MC:MAP) shed 0.05% or 0.001 points to 1.989.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 163 to 34 and 19 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was up 0.09% or 1.20 to $1359.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 1.21% or 0.55 to hit $44.86 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 1.15% or 0.54 to trade at $46.22 a barrel.
EUR/USD was unchanged 0.00% to 1.1050, while EUR/GBP fell 0.06% to 0.8518.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.35% at 96.65.