Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Consumer Services and Telecoms & IT sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 added 1.24%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Distribuidora Intl de Aliment (MC:DIDA), which rose 12.06% or 0.083 points to trade at 0.775 at the close. Melia Hotels (MC:MEL) added 3.15% or 0.275 points to end at 9.010 and International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (MC:ICAG) was up 3.09% or 0.198 points to 6.596 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Mediaset ESP (MC:TL5), which lost 2.07% or 0.122 points to trade at 5.768 in late trade. Repsol (MC:REP) declined 1.44% or 0.220 points to end at 15.050 and Grifols SA (MC:GRLS) shed 0.89% or 0.200 points to 22.310.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 117 to 54 and 14 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.37% or 4.50 to $1232.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.64% or 0.43 to hit $67.25 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.47% or 0.36 to trade at $76.53 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.18% to 1.1372, while EUR/GBP rose 0.31% to 0.8870.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.24% at 96.41.