Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Building & Construction and Telecoms & IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 lost 0.39%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Merlin Properties SA (MC:MRL), which rose 1.49% or 0.17 points to trade at 11.21 at the close. Inditex (MC:ITX) added 1.13% or 0.405 points to end at 36.340 and Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX) was up 1.07% or 0.18 points to 17.54 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banco Popular (MC:POP), which lost 3.20% or 0.023 points to trade at 0.696 in late trade. Banco Santander (MC:SAN) declined 2.14% or 0.125 points to end at 5.708 and Bankinter (MC:BKT) shed 2.08% or 0.173 points to 8.156.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 107 to 75 and 14 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.47% or 5.84 to $1259.44 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.85% or 0.43 to hit $51.10 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.58% or 0.31 to trade at $53.92 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.21% to 1.1232, while EUR/GBP rose 0.43% to 0.8633.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 96.88.