Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Building & Construction and Consumer Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 4.56%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Jazztel (MADRID:JAZ), which fell 0.38% or 0.050 points to trade at 12.970 at the close. Meanwhile, Tecnicas Reunidas (MADRID:TRE) fell 1.89% or 0.885 points to end at 46.045 and Amadeus IT (MADRID:AMA) was down 1.99% or 0.735 points to 36.120 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Banco Popular (MADRID:POP), which fell 6.93% or 0.327 points to trade at 4.383 at the close. Banco Santander (MADRID:SAN) declined 6.70% or 0.454 points to end at 6.325 and Sacyr (MADRID:SCYR) was down 6.45% or 0.238 points to 3.451.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 200 to 11 and 7 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was up 0.40% or 4.70 to $1177.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 2.00% or 1.19 to hit $58.44 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 2.19% or 1.39 to trade at $61.88 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.24% to 1.1191, while EUR/GBP rose 0.04% to 0.7093.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.35% at 95.27.