Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Telecoms & IT and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 fell 0.16%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Cie Automotive (MC:CIEA), which rose 3.11% or 0.740 points to trade at 24.500 at the close. Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX) added 2.29% or 0.55 points to end at 24.59 and Acerinox (MC:ACX) was up 1.52% or 0.142 points to 9.500 in late trade.
Biggest losers included B. Sabadell (MC:SABE), which lost 2.83% or 0.029 points to trade at 0.999 in late trade. Bankinter (MC:BKT) declined 2.38% or 0.166 points to end at 6.808 and Mapfre (MC:MAP) shed 2.14% or 0.053 points to 2.428.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 89 to 88 and 14 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.73% or 9.65 to $1325.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 1.05% or 0.57 to hit $54.80 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.37% or 0.23 to trade at $61.77 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.29% to 1.1443, while EUR/GBP fell 0.38% to 0.8717.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.29% at 95.303.