Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Telecoms & IT and Building & Construction sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 2.57%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Distribuidora Intl de Aliment (MADRID:DIDA), which rose 1.99% or 0.106 points to trade at 5.429 at the close. Grifols (MADRID:GRLS) added 0.29% or 0.115 points to end at 39.545 and Enagas (MADRID:ENAG) was down 0.01% or 0.003 points to 25.657 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Abengoa B (MADRID:ABGek), which lost 9.34% or 0.094 points to trade at 0.912 in late trade. Sacyr (MADRID:SCYR) declined 5.27% or 0.122 points to end at 2.203 and Arcel. Mittal (MADRID:MTS) shed 4.68% or 0.291 points to 5.928.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 170 to 40 and 5 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 1.83% or 20.40 to $1137.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 3.33% or 1.56 to hit $45.34 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 2.05% or 1.00 to trade at $48.08 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.58% to 1.1369, while EUR/GBP fell 0.52% to 0.7297.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.24% at 94.86.