Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Building & Construction and Telecoms & IT sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 gained 2.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS), which rose 5.64% or 0.286 points to trade at 5.360 at the close. ACS Const. (MC:ACS) added 4.89% or 1.245 points to end at 26.695 and Inditex (MC:ITX) was up 3.75% or 1.205 points to 33.370 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Caixabank SA (MC:CABK), which lost 3.14% or 0.076 points to trade at 2.346 in late trade. Banco Popular (MC:POP) declined 1.00% or 0.012 points to end at 1.184 and Bankinter (MC:BKT) shed 0.03% or 0.002 points to 6.611.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 167 to 34 and 26 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 1.04% or 13.85 to $1345.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 2.36% or 1.07 to hit $46.41 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 1.77% or 0.83 to trade at $47.66 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.32% to 1.1226, while EUR/GBP fell 0.05% to 0.8581.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.30% at 95.17.