Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Consumer Services and Building & Construction sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 1.45%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Viscofan (MC:VIS), which rose 4.62% or 1.970 points to trade at 44.615 at the close. Meanwhile, Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS) added 3.62% or 0.214 points to end at 6.134 and BBVA (MC:BBVA) was up 3.13% or 0.194 points to 6.390 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE), which fell 0.05% or 0.015 points to trade at 32.780 at the close. Gas Natural (MC:GAS) unchanged 0.00% or 0.000 points to end at 17.200 and Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX) was up 0.11% or 0.01 points to 14.21.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 154 to 45 and 20 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 1.86% or 24.25 to $1280.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.57% or 0.25 to hit $44.32 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.09% or 0.04 to trade at $45.62 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.98% to 1.1031, while EUR/GBP rose 0.04% to 0.8906.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.95% at 97.86.