Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Telecoms & IT and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 fell 0.94%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Grifols SA (MC:GRLS), which rose 0.79% or 0.195 points to trade at 24.965 at the close. Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX) added 0.77% or 0.13 points to end at 17.11 and Melia Hotels (MC:MEL) was up 0.69% or 0.090 points to 13.180 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Mapfre (MC:MAP), which lost 4.84% or 0.156 points to trade at 3.065 in late trade. Banco Santander (MC:SAN) declined 3.69% or 0.220 points to end at 5.738 and Bankia (MC:BKIA) shed 2.46% or 0.026 points to 1.029.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 130 to 51 and 19 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.45% or 5.68 to $1253.02 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.77% or 0.38 to hit $49.45 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.75% or 0.39 to trade at $52.60 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.28% to 1.1128, while EUR/GBP fell 0.52% to 0.8560.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.18% at 97.52.