Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Building & Construction sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 fell 0.57%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Viscofan (MC:VIS), which rose 2.93% or 1.420 points to trade at 49.895 at the close. Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX) added 2.14% or 0.30 points to end at 14.34 and International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (MC:ICAG) was up 1.11% or 0.066 points to 6.005 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Repsol (MC:REP), which lost 1.94% or 0.270 points to trade at 13.625 in late trade. Mapfre (MC:MAP) declined 1.70% or 0.050 points to end at 2.886 and Bankinter (MC:BKT) shed 1.67% or 0.123 points to 7.249.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 107 to 52 and 24 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.15% or 1.85 to $1239.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.49% or 0.26 to hit $53.10 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.16% or 0.09 to trade at $55.56 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.55% to 1.0615, while EUR/GBP fell 0.08% to 0.8540.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.42% at 100.87.