Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Consumer Services and Building & Construction sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 added 0.30%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Acerinox (MADRID:ACX), which rose 3.28% or 0.435 points to trade at 13.715 at the close. Sacyr (MADRID:SCYR) added 2.13% or 0.077 points to end at 3.683 and ACS Const. (MADRID:ACS) was up 1.56% or 0.460 points to 29.960 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Indra A (MADRID:IDR), which lost 1.63% or 0.161 points to trade at 9.726 in late trade. Banco Popular (MADRID:POP) declined 1.37% or 0.065 points to end at 4.669 and Obrascon Huarte Lain (MADRID:OHL) shed 0.95% or 0.160 points to 16.690.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 140 to 72 and 3 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was down 0.58% or 6.90 to $1177.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 1.31% or 0.79 to hit $61.17 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 1.81% or 1.15 to trade at $64.48 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 1.45% to 1.1176, while EUR/GBP fell 0.83% to 0.7108.
The US Dollar Index was up 1.11% at 95.57.