Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Telecoms & IT, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Financial Services & Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 0.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Cie Automotive (MC:CIEA), which rose 1.04% or 0.280 points to trade at 27.280 at the close. Acerinox (MC:ACX) added 0.95% or 0.115 points to end at 12.190 and Telefonica (MC:TEF) was up 0.94% or 0.065 points to 6.953 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE), which lost 2.06% or 0.560 points to trade at 26.630 in late trade. B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) declined 1.50% or 0.021 points to end at 1.381 and Bankinter (MC:BKT) shed 1.47% or 0.120 points to 8.068.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 92 to 78 and 25 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.98% or 11.70 to $1187.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 0.64% or 0.46 to hit $72.03 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.50% or 0.40 to trade at $81.19 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.54% to 1.1677, while EUR/GBP fell 0.06% to 0.8911.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.55% at 94.40.