Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Consumer Services, Building & Construction and Financial Services & Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 added 0.65%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Arcel. Mittal (MADRID:MTS), which rose 5.24% or 0.511 points to trade at 10.255 at the close. Indra A (MADRID:IDR) added 2.58% or 0.238 points to end at 9.476 and Abertis Infr (MADRID:ABE) was up 2.27% or 0.365 points to 16.420 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Telefonica (MADRID:TEF), which lost 1.22% or 0.163 points to trade at 13.137 in late trade. Abengoa B (MADRID:ABGek) declined 1.10% or 0.033 points to end at 2.957 and FCC (MADRID:FCC) shed 0.90% or 0.100 points to 11.025.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 140 to 69 and 5 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was up 0.42% or 5.10 to $1223.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 1.24% or 0.75 to hit $59.75 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.84% or 0.56 to trade at $66.70 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.20% to 1.1377, while EUR/GBP rose 0.15% to 0.7221.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.13% at 93.61.