Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Telecoms & IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 0.91%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS), which rose 3.57% or 0.152 points to trade at 4.409 at the close. Banco Popular (MC:POP) added 3.14% or 0.045 points to end at 1.480 and Acerinox (MC:ACX) was up 2.01% or 0.205 points to 10.400 in late trade.
Biggest losers included B. Sabadell (MC:SABE), which lost 3.64% or 0.058 points to trade at 1.536 in late trade. Bankia (MC:BKIA) declined 3.34% or 0.027 points to end at 0.781 and Mapfre (MC:MAP) shed 3.10% or 0.073 points to 2.278.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 107 to 92 and 15 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was up 0.07% or 0.85 to $1217.55 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 1.26% or 0.62 to hit $49.95 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.87% or 0.44 to trade at $50.80 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.04% to 1.1144, while EUR/GBP rose 0.95% to 0.7681.
The US Dollar Index was unchanged 0.00% at 95.72.