Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Friday, 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 declined 0.64%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS), which rose 8.94% or 0.673 points to trade at 8.199 at the close. Acerinox (MC:ACX) added 1.34% or 0.180 points to end at 13.605 and Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE) was up 0.94% or 0.345 points to 37.050 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Caixabank SA (MC:CABK), which lost 1.71% or 0.058 points to trade at 3.329 in late trade. Banco Santander (MC:SAN) declined 1.68% or 0.086 points to end at 5.041 and Banco Popular (MC:POP) shed 1.39% or 0.012 points to 0.850.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 81 to 80 and 21 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.19% or 2.35 to $1234.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 1.92% or 1.02 to hit $54.02 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 2.10% or 1.17 to trade at $56.80 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.15% to 1.0643, while EUR/GBP fell 0.08% to 0.8518.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 100.69.