Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Telecoms & IT sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 0.25%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Distribuidora Intl de Aliment (MC:DIDA), which rose 2.01% or 0.109 points to trade at 5.529 at the close. Meanwhile, Acerinox (MC:ACX) added 1.67% or 0.185 points to end at 11.290 and Acciona (MC:ANA) was up 0.95% or 0.690 points to 73.490 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Caixabank SA (MC:CABK), which fell 1.20% or 0.053 points to trade at 4.360 at the close. B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) declined 0.96% or 0.018 points to end at 1.859 and Banco Santander (MC:SAN) was down 0.95% or 0.052 points to 5.438.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 84 to 77 and 28 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.25% or 3.21 to $1294.81 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 1.77% or 0.86 to hit $47.80 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 1.80% or 0.95 to trade at $51.77 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.43% to 1.1811, while EUR/GBP rose 0.22% to 0.9153.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.34% at 93.04.