Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Telecoms & IT, Consumer Goods and Financial Services & Real Estate sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 2.05% to hit a new 1-month high.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Telefonica (MC:TEF), which rose 5.14% or 0.573 points to trade at 11.707 at the close. Meanwhile, Banco Santander (MC:SAN) added 3.47% or 0.175 points to end at 5.229 and Abertis Infr (MC:ABE) was up 3.10% or 0.455 points to 15.135 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bankinter (MC:BKT), which fell 3.27% or 0.226 points to trade at 6.684 at the close. Abengoa B (MC:ABGek) declined 3.22% or 0.029 points to end at 0.872 and Obrascon Huarte Lain (MC:OHL) was down 3.04% or 0.223 points to 7.115.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 148 to 70 and 3 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.02% or 0.20 to $1167.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.11% or 0.05 to hit $45.25 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.28% or 0.14 to trade at $47.98 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 1.82% to 1.1134, while EUR/GBP fell 1.58% to 0.7237.
The US Dollar Index was up 1.30% at 96.31.