Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Consumer Services and Building & Construction sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 added 1.05%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Acerinox (MADRID:ACX), which rose 7.21% or 0.699 points to trade at 10.395 at the close. Meanwhile, Int.Airl.Grp (MADRID:ICAG) added 4.31% or 0.319 points to end at 7.719 and Arcel. Mittal (MADRID:MTS) was up 3.42% or 0.228 points to 6.905 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Abengoa B (MADRID:ABGek), which fell 6.82% or 0.064 points to trade at 0.874 at the close. B. Sabadell (MADRID:SABE) declined 3.53% or 0.065 points to end at 1.776 and Bankinter (MADRID:BKT) was down 1.35% or 0.089 points to 6.483.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 150 to 49 and 9 ended unchanged.
Shares in B. Sabadell (MADRID:SABE) fell to 52-week lows; losing 3.53% or 0.065 to 1.776.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.98% or 11.10 to $1122.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 1.99% or 0.92 to hit $47.17 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 1.28% or 0.65 to trade at $51.15 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 1.05% to 1.1109, while EUR/GBP fell 0.67% to 0.7288.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.63% at 96.48.