Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Building & Construction, Telecoms & IT and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 lost 1.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Aena SME SA (MC:AENA), which rose 2.09% or 3.50 points to trade at 171.15 at the close. Inmobiliaria Colonial SA (MC:COL) added 1.09% or 0.095 points to end at 8.790 and International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (MC:ICAG) was up 1.06% or 0.074 points to 7.026 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Ferrovial (MC:FER), which lost 4.31% or 0.765 points to trade at 17.000 in late trade. Indra A (MC:IDR) declined 3.61% or 0.410 points to end at 10.960 and Acciona (MC:ANA) shed 3.53% or 2.460 points to 67.280.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 137 to 40 and 22 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.52% or 6.90 to $1311.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 1.25% or 0.77 to hit $60.87 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 1.54% or 1.00 to trade at $63.73 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.14% to 1.2210, while EUR/GBP rose 0.32% to 0.8889.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 90.62.