Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Consumer Goods and Telecoms & IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 lost 0.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were ACS Const. (MC:ACS), which rose 2.80% or 0.800 points to trade at 29.360 at the close. International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (MC:ICAG) added 1.99% or 0.110 points to end at 5.629 and Gamesa (MC:GAM) was up 1.98% or 0.395 points to 20.325 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE), which lost 1.69% or 0.625 points to trade at 36.315 in late trade. Mapfre (MC:MAP) declined 1.66% or 0.048 points to end at 2.838 and Banco Santander (MC:SAN) shed 1.39% or 0.071 points to 5.047.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 80 to 80 and 19 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.68% or 8.35 to $1244.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.42% or 0.22 to hit $52.39 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.35% or 0.19 to trade at $55.24 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.22% to 1.0702, while EUR/GBP fell 0.01% to 0.8541.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 100.11.