Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Consumer Goods, Consumer Services and Financial Services & Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 fell 0.55%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX), which rose 4.48% or 0.91 points to trade at 21.24 at the close. Merlin Properties SA (MC:MRL) added 2.50% or 0.28 points to end at 11.49 and Distribuidora Intl de Aliment (MC:DIDA) was up 2.32% or 0.093 points to 4.103 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Inditex (MC:ITX), which lost 7.06% or 1.900 points to trade at 25.000 in late trade. International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (MC:ICAG) declined 5.19% or 0.366 points to end at 6.686 and B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) shed 3.64% or 0.066 points to 1.745.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 92 to 75 and 30 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.13% or 1.70 to $1331.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 1.34% or 0.84 to hit $63.61 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 1.17% or 0.78 to trade at $67.17 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.24% to 1.2301, while EUR/GBP fell 0.41% to 0.8802.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.11% at 89.76.