Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Financial Services & Real Estate and Telecoms & IT sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 1.35%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles (MADRID:BME), which rose 2.75% or 1.085 points to trade at 40.555 at the close. Inditex (MADRID:ITX) added 2.46% or 0.713 points to end at 29.712 and BBVA (MADRID:BBVA) was up 2.17% or 0.196 points to 9.222 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Distribuidora Intl de Aliment (MADRID:DIDA), which lost 2.92% or 0.222 points to trade at 7.390 in late trade. Abengoa B (MADRID:ABGek) declined 1.84% or 0.056 points to end at 2.990 and Banco Popular (MADRID:POP) shed 0.59% or 0.029 points to 4.779.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 132 to 77 and 6 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was down 1.63% or 20.00 to $1207.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 3.04% or 1.83 to hit $58.41 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 2.86% or 1.90 to trade at $64.38 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 1.54% to 1.1140, while EUR/GBP fell 0.59% to 0.7186.
The US Dollar Index was up 1.25% at 95.41.