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 0.82%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA (MC:GAM), which rose 3.50% or 0.390 points to trade at 11.540 at the close. Viscofan (MC:VIS) added 3.33% or 1.780 points to end at 55.240 and Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX) was up 0.77% or 0.17 points to 21.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Distribuidora Intl de Aliment (MC:DIDA), which lost 1.90% or 0.080 points to trade at 4.141 in late trade. Acerinox (MC:ACX) declined 1.87% or 0.220 points to end at 11.530 and Inditex (MC:ITX) shed 1.84% or 0.575 points to 30.720.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 107 to 68 and 22 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.65% or 8.10 to $1256.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 0.48% or 0.27 to hit $56.87 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.64% or 0.40 to trade at $62.84 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.36% to 1.1783, while EUR/GBP fell 0.50% to 0.8771.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.24% at 93.62.