Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Consumer Services, Telecoms & IT and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 0.33%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were DIA (MADRID:DIDA), which rose 3.55% or 0.258 points to trade at 7.534 at the close. Int.Airl.Grp (MADRID:ICAG) added 2.91% or 0.231 points to end at 8.162 and Gamesa (MADRID:GAM) was up 2.73% or 0.325 points to 12.230 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banco Popular (MADRID:POP), which lost 3.07% or 0.138 points to trade at 4.358 in late trade. Abengoa B (MADRID:ABGek) declined 2.15% or 0.068 points to end at 3.092 and Sacyr (MADRID:SCYR) shed 1.96% or 0.080 points to 4.005.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 121 to 80 and 3 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was up 0.70% or 8.30 to $1202.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.76% or 0.44 to hit $57.44 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.91% or 0.57 to trade at $62.88 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.22% to 1.0761, while EUR/GBP fell 0.19% to 0.7189.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.21% at 97.95.