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 1.59% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Naturgy Energy Group SA (BME:NTGY), which rose 1.06% or 0.22 points to trade at 21.04 at the close. Endesa SA (BME:ELE) added 0.16% or 0.03 points to end at 18.41 and Iberdrola (BME:IBE) was down 0.08% or 0.01 points to 12.19 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banco Santander (BME:SAN), which lost 4.33% or 0.20 points to trade at 4.40 in late trade. Fluidra (BME:FLUI) declined 3.72% or 0.84 points to end at 21.72 and Melia Hotels (BME:MEL) shed 2.55% or 0.20 points to 7.64.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 165 to 34 and 19 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 1.82% or 42.80 to $2,312.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.20% or 0.16 to hit $78.34 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.13% or 0.11 to trade at $82.49 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.56% to 1.07, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.21% to 0.84.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.14% at 104.76.