Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic, Telecoms & IT and Financial Services & Real Estate sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 0.25%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS), which rose 3.33% or 0.152 points to trade at 4.723 at the close. Meanwhile, Repsol (MC:REP) added 3.19% or 0.360 points to end at 11.650 and Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE) was up 1.39% or 0.375 points to 27.450 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Banco Popular (MC:POP), which fell 2.86% or 0.045 points to trade at 1.529 at the close. Mediaset ESP (MC:TL5) declined 1.48% or 0.175 points to end at 11.615 and Int.Airl.Grp (MC:ICAG) was down 1.14% or 0.077 points to 6.704.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 111 to 75 and 29 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was up 0.32% or 3.95 to $1246.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 1.77% or 0.86 to hit $49.48 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 1.43% or 0.71 to trade at $50.35 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.01% to 1.1366, while EUR/GBP rose 0.40% to 0.7860.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.02% at 93.92.