Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Consumer Services, Consumer Goods and Building & Construction sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 0.07%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Aena SME SA (MC:AENA), which rose 3.26% or 4.75 points to trade at 150.45 at the close. ACS Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA (MC:ACS) added 2.80% or 1.030 points to end at 37.830 and Mediaset ESP (MC:TL5) was up 2.40% or 0.156 points to 6.666 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Caixabank SA (MC:CABK), which lost 3.60% or 0.150 points to trade at 4.020 in late trade. Viscofan (MC:VIS) declined 3.34% or 2.150 points to end at 62.300 and Indra A (MC:IDR) shed 3.19% or 0.315 points to 9.565.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 90 to 88 and 22 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.77% or 9.30 to $1202.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 1.01% or 0.71 to hit $71.03 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.10% or 0.08 to trade at $78.78 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.28% to 1.1744, while EUR/GBP rose 1.18% to 0.8980.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.37% at 93.82.