Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic, Financial Services & Real Estate and Telecoms & IT sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 0.62%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Iberdrola (MC:IBE), which rose 1.92% or 0.136 points to trade at 7.206 at the close. Meanwhile, International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (MC:ICAG) added 1.51% or 0.103 points to end at 6.924 and B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) was up 1.46% or 0.025 points to 1.733 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Acerinox (MC:ACX), which fell 1.53% or 0.185 points to trade at 11.870 at the close. Grifols SA (MC:GRLS) declined 0.67% or 0.175 points to end at 26.070 and Acciona (MC:ANA) was down 0.62% or 0.520 points to 83.470.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 106 to 63 and 13 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.94% or 11.79 to $1244.61 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.77% or 0.33 to hit $43.34 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.57% or 0.26 to trade at $46.01 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.09% to 1.1185, while EUR/GBP fell 0.03% to 0.8796.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 97.06.