Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic, Financial Services & Real Estate and Telecoms & IT sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 gained 0.45%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Repsol (MC:REP), which rose 7.00% or 0.810 points to trade at 12.380 at the close. Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE) added 4.25% or 1.710 points to end at 41.975 and Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS) was up 3.85% or 0.203 points to 5.477 in late trade.
Biggest losers included FCC (MC:FCC), which lost 1.97% or 0.145 points to trade at 7.233 in late trade. Acciona (MC:ANA) declined 1.01% or 0.790 points to end at 77.170 and Inditex (MC:ITX) shed 0.90% or 0.307 points to 33.788.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 140 to 69 and 10 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 1.58% or 18.00 to $1117.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 2.82% or 1.30 to hit $47.44 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 2.51% or 1.23 to trade at $50.02 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.49% to 1.0962, while EUR/GBP fell 0.53% to 0.7108.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.31% at 97.30.