Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Consumer Services, Building & Construction and Financial Services & Real Estate sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 1.70%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Int.Airl.Grp (MADRID:ICAG), which rose 4.91% or 0.362 points to trade at 7.731 at the close. Meanwhile, Obrascon Huarte Lain (MADRID:OHL) added 4.33% or 0.690 points to end at 16.620 and Acerinox (MADRID:ACX) was up 3.71% or 0.435 points to 12.165 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Banco Popular (MADRID:POP), which fell 0.03% or 0.002 points to trade at 4.428 at the close. Iberdrola (MADRID:IBE) added 0.27% or 0.017 points to end at 6.213 and Red Electrica Corp. (MADRID:REE) was up 0.66% or 0.470 points to 72.140.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 178 to 36 and 4 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.18% or 2.10 to $1155.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.27% or 0.14 to hit $52.88 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.14% or 0.08 to trade at $58.92 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 1.17% to 1.1028, while EUR/GBP fell 1.11% to 0.7110.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.88% at 96.80.