Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Telecoms & IT and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 0.61%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Inditex (MC:ITX), which rose 1.37% or 0.350 points to trade at 25.900 at the close. Melia Hotels (MC:MEL) added 1.21% or 0.105 points to end at 8.780 and Merlin Properties SA (MC:MRL) was up 1.02% or 0.11 points to 10.88 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ArcelorMittal SA (MC:MTS), which lost 2.39% or 0.505 points to trade at 20.590 in late trade. Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX) declined 1.90% or 0.43 points to end at 22.22 and Banco Santander (MC:SAN) shed 1.63% or 0.068 points to 4.085.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 109 to 52 and 25 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.02% or 0.20 to $1227.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 1.37% or 0.75 to hit $53.88 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.26% or 0.80 to trade at $62.68 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.18% to 1.1404, while EUR/GBP fell 0.62% to 0.8854.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.20% at 96.390.