Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic, Financial Services & Real Estate and Telecoms & IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 0.17%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE), which rose 3.02% or 0.670 points to trade at 22.890 at the close. Mediaset ESP (MC:TL5) added 2.54% or 0.146 points to end at 5.900 and Viscofan (MC:VIS) was up 2.48% or 1.180 points to 48.700 in late trade.
Biggest losers included B. Sabadell (MC:SABE), which lost 1.79% or 0.019 points to trade at 1.044 in late trade. Bankia SA (MC:BKIA) declined 1.58% or 0.041 points to end at 2.556 and Repsol (MC:REP) shed 1.33% or 0.200 points to 14.800.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 103 to 70 and 19 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.25% or 3.15 to $1279.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $54.20 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.18% or 0.11 to trade at $62.81 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.07% to 1.1369, while EUR/GBP fell 0.09% to 0.8815.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 95.985.