Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Consumer Goods, Telecoms & IT and Financial Services & Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 1.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Naturgy Energy Group SA (MC:GAS), which rose 1.88% or 0.440 points to trade at 23.900 at the close. Endesa (MC:ELE) added 0.95% or 0.175 points to end at 18.675 and Ferrovial (MC:FER) was up 0.93% or 0.170 points to 18.470 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Inditex (MC:ITX), which lost 3.55% or 0.940 points to trade at 25.510 in late trade. Mapfre (MC:MAP) declined 3.17% or 0.085 points to end at 2.595 and BBVA (MC:BBVA) shed 2.65% or 0.146 points to 5.369.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 114 to 62 and 16 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.52% or 18.10 to $1209.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.09% or 0.07 to hit $75.23 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to trade at $84.98 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.15% to 1.1561, while EUR/GBP rose 0.26% to 0.8901.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.11% at 95.02.