Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Telecoms & IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 fell 0.25%.
The biggest gainers 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. 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.
Biggest losers included Caixabank SA (MC:CABK), which lost 1.20% or 0.053 points to trade at 4.360 in late trade. B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) declined 0.96% or 0.018 points to end at 1.859 and Banco Santander (MC:SAN) shed 0.95% or 0.052 points to 5.438.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 84 to 77 and 28 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.26% or 3.34 to $1294.94 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, 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 1.1812, while EUR/GBP rose 0.22% to 0.9153.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.34% at 93.04.