Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic, Consumer Goods and Financial Services & Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 0.83%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE), which rose 1.25% or 0.320 points to trade at 25.870 at the close. Acerinox (MC:ACX) added 1.23% or 0.140 points to end at 11.540 and Bankinter (MC:BKT) was up 0.73% or 0.062 points to 8.518 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Distribuidora Intl de Aliment (MC:DIDA), which lost 3.23% or 0.090 points to trade at 2.695 in late trade. Iberdrola (MC:IBE) declined 2.15% or 0.144 points to end at 6.568 and Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX) shed 1.83% or 0.40 points to 21.44.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 106 to 69 and 28 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.16% or 2.10 to $1280.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.19% or 0.12 to hit $64.97 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 1.40% or 1.03 to trade at $74.47 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.05% to 1.1604, while EUR/GBP rose 0.29% to 0.8765.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.06% at 94.50.