Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Telecoms & IT, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 lost 1.63%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Bankia (MC:BKIA), which rose 4.18% or 0.034 points to trade at 0.848 at the close. Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE) added 3.77% or 1.225 points to end at 33.750 and B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) was up 3.69% or 0.046 points to 1.294 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX), which lost 6.22% or 0.86 points to trade at 13.03 in late trade. Enagas (MC:ENAG) declined 5.33% or 1.335 points to end at 23.690 and Aena Aeropuertos SA (MC:AENA) shed 4.78% or 6.25 points to 124.45.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 120 to 81 and 22 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.48% or 6.10 to $1267.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 1.35% or 0.61 to hit $44.66 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.08% or 0.50 to trade at $45.86 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.21% to 1.0887, while EUR/GBP fell 1.30% to 0.8680.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.15% at 98.81.