Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Telecoms & IT and Consumer Services sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 1.72%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Repsol (MC:REP), which rose 5.30% or 0.468 points to trade at 9.296 at the close. Meanwhile, Acerinox (MC:ACX) added 4.69% or 0.371 points to end at 8.276 and Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS) was up 3.13% or 0.112 points to 3.692 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Int.Airl.Grp (MC:ICAG), which fell 5.09% or 0.369 points to trade at 6.881 at the close. Gamesa (MC:GAM) declined 4.57% or 0.690 points to end at 14.400 and Bankia (MC:BKIA) was down 3.69% or 0.034 points to 0.887.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 128 to 89 and 5 ended unchanged.
Shares in Bankia (MC:BKIA) fell to 52-week lows; losing 3.69% or 0.034 to 0.887.
Gold for February delivery was down 0.12% or 1.30 to $1114.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 3.72% or 1.20 to hit $33.50 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 3.79% or 1.28 to trade at $35.22 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.51% to 1.0949, while EUR/GBP fell 0.44% to 0.7620.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.46% at 98.57.