Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Building & Construction, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Financial Services & Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 added 0.54%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were ENCE (MC:ENC), which rose 3.49% or 0.185 points to trade at 5.485 at the close. ACS Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA (MC:ACS) added 2.98% or 0.980 points to end at 33.830 and Acerinox (MC:ACX) was up 2.58% or 0.218 points to 8.660 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Mapfre (MC:MAP), which lost 1.28% or 0.030 points to trade at 2.320 in late trade. Amadeus IT (MC:AMA) declined 0.65% or 0.400 points to end at 60.840 and Repsol (MC:REP) shed 0.60% or 0.085 points to 14.080.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 112 to 61 and 19 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.01% or 0.10 to $1283.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.04% or 0.02 to hit $45.35 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.32% or 0.17 to trade at $53.38 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.07% to 1.1449, while EUR/GBP fell 0.39% to 0.8977.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.24% at 95.732.