Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Consumer Goods, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Financial Services & Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 0.71%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Abertis Infr (MC:ABE), which rose 0.43% or 0.080 points to trade at 18.580 at the close. Acerinox (MC:ACX) added 0.34% or 0.040 points to end at 11.960 and Aena Aeropuertos SA (MC:AENA) was up 0.32% or 0.55 points to 170.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE), which lost 2.13% or 0.575 points to trade at 26.365 in late trade. Endesa (MC:ELE) declined 2.13% or 0.390 points to end at 17.895 and Inditex (MC:ITX) shed 1.39% or 0.410 points to 29.170.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 112 to 76 and 19 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.40% or 5.20 to $1296.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $59.64 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.17% or 0.11 to trade at $65.88 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.47% to 1.1952, while EUR/GBP rose 0.10% to 0.8886.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.38% at 92.31.