Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic, Consumer Goods and Financial Services & Real Estate sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 gained 1.36%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Mediaset ESP (MC:TL5), which rose 4.42% or 0.384 points to trade at 9.078 at the close. Meanwhile, Endesa (MC:ELE) added 3.25% or 0.540 points to end at 17.140 and Gas Natural (MC:GAS) was up 2.69% or 0.485 points to 18.510 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Abertis Infr (MC:ABE), which fell 0.26% or 0.050 points to trade at 19.450 at the close. Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX) declined 0.18% or 0.04 points to end at 19.75 and Distribuidora Intl de Aliment (MC:DIDA) was up 0.13% or 0.005 points to 3.896.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 148 to 27 and 19 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.86% or 11.30 to $1327.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 1.22% or 0.72 to hit $59.92 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.81% or 0.51 to trade at $63.30 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.15% to 1.2268, while EUR/GBP rose 0.19% to 0.8879.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 90.17.