Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Telecoms & IT, Financial Services & Real Estate and Building & Construction sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 added 1.41%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Banco Popular (MC:POP), which rose 9.94% or 0.065 points to trade at 0.719 at the close. ACS Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA (MC:ACS) added 2.67% or 0.930 points to end at 35.690 and BBVA (MC:BBVA) was up 2.40% or 0.174 points to 7.414 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Distribuidora Intl de Aliment (MC:DIDA), which lost 0.51% or 0.027 points to trade at 5.317 in late trade. Inditex (MC:ITX) added 0.08% or 0.030 points to end at 35.935 and International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (MC:ICAG) gained 0.10% or 0.007 points to 6.913.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 146 to 36 and 15 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.12% or 1.47 to $1251.33 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 2.19% or 1.08 to hit $50.43 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 2.19% or 1.15 to trade at $53.66 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.77% to 1.1188, while EUR/GBP rose 0.12% to 0.8595.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.61% at 97.17.