Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Telecoms & IT and Building & Construction 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 Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE), which rose 2.95% or 0.735 points to trade at 25.620 at the close. Inmobiliaria Colonial SA (MC:COL) added 2.47% or 0.19 points to end at 7.937 and International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (MC:ICAG) was up 1.94% or 0.132 points to 6.946 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Indra A (MC:IDR), which lost 5.10% or 0.615 points to trade at 11.450 in late trade. Endesa (MC:ELE) declined 1.34% or 0.255 points to end at 18.735 and BBVA (MC:BBVA) shed 1.33% or 0.097 points to 7.182.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 108 to 71 and 19 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.77% or 9.87 to $1272.23 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.33% or 0.19 to hit $57.11 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.38% or 0.24 to trade at $62.29 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.35% to 1.1889, while EUR/GBP fell 0.24% to 0.8815.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.18% at 93.05.