Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Consumer Goods and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 fell 0.81%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX), which rose 2.78% or 0.37 points to trade at 13.68 at the close. Meanwhile, Abertis Infr (MC:ABE) added 1.76% or 0.235 points to end at 13.550 and Grifols SA (MC:GRLS) was up 1.51% or 0.275 points to 18.450 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS), which fell 4.84% or 0.361 points to trade at 7.096 at the close. Mapfre (MC:MAP) declined 3.30% or 0.101 points to end at 2.961 and Bankia (MC:BKIA) was down 2.59% or 0.026 points to 0.979.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 86 to 80 and 17 ended unchanged.
Gold for February delivery was up 0.38% or 4.35 to $1141.75 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.45% or 0.24 to hit $53.19 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.09% or 0.05 to trade at $55.16 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.09% to 1.0441, while EUR/GBP rose 0.54% to 0.8411.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.15% at 102.77.