Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Consumer Goods and Building & Construction sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 0.89%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Laboratorios Farmaceuticos ROVI (BME:ROVI), which rose 2.34% or 1.85 points to trade at 80.80 at the close. Inmobiliaria Colonial SA (BME:COL) added 2.13% or 0.13 points to end at 5.99 and Amadeus IT (BME:AMA) was up 1.28% or 0.78 points to 61.58 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Puig Brands SA (BME:PUIGb), which lost 13.65% or 3.35 points to trade at 21.20 in late trade. Unicaja Banco SA (BME:UNI) declined 2.45% or 0.03 points to end at 1.16 and Acerinox (BME:ACX) shed 2.24% or 0.21 points to 8.96.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 142 to 60 and 16 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.55% or 14.00 to $2,529.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 2.15% or 1.49 to hit $67.66 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 2.16% or 1.57 to trade at $71.12 a barrel.
EUR/USD was unchanged 0.27% to 1.11, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.13% to 0.84.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.12% at 101.20.