Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Building & Construction, Financial Services & Real Estate and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 lost 1.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Arcel. Mittal (MADRID:MTS), which rose 1.65% or 0.134 points to trade at 8.276 at the close. Distribuidora Intl de Aliment (MADRID:DIDA) added 1.02% or 0.058 points to end at 5.750 and Acerinox (MADRID:ACX) was up 0.81% or 0.090 points to 11.145 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Abengoa B (MADRID:ABGek), which lost 26.22% or 0.371 points to trade at 1.044 in late trade. Obrascon Huarte Lain (MADRID:OHL) declined 6.22% or 0.925 points to end at 13.950 and Bankia (MADRID:BKIA) shed 2.91% or 0.035 points to 1.166.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 148 to 56 and 6 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.20% or 2.20 to $1091.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 1.95% or 0.88 to hit $46.05 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 1.34% or 0.67 to trade at $50.19 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.01% to 1.0953, while EUR/GBP fell 0.17% to 0.7014.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.06% at 97.55.