Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Telecoms & IT and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 fell 0.87%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (MC:ICAG), which rose 1.40% or 0.086 points to trade at 6.212 at the close. Viscofan (MC:VIS) added 1.26% or 0.620 points to end at 49.650 and Gamesa (MC:GAM) was up 1.05% or 0.200 points to 19.170 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banco Popular (MC:POP), which lost 9.61% or 0.078 points to trade at 0.734 in late trade. Caixabank SA (MC:CABK) declined 3.01% or 0.122 points to end at 3.930 and Banco Santander (MC:SAN) shed 1.68% or 0.097 points to 5.678.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 91 to 73 and 16 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.07% or 0.85 to $1256.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 1.19% or 0.62 to hit $52.86 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.94% or 0.52 to trade at $55.76 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.09% to 1.0601, while EUR/GBP fell 0.33% to 0.8537.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.17% at 100.91.