Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Consumer Services and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 fell 0.50%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS), which rose 7.04% or 0.285 points to trade at 4.335 at the close. Amadeus IT (MC:AMA) added 2.22% or 0.895 points to end at 41.245 and Acerinox (MC:ACX) was up 2.18% or 0.220 points to 10.330 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banco Popular (MC:POP), which lost 26.49% or 0.624 points to trade at 1.732 in late trade. B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) declined 5.00% or 0.085 points to end at 1.614 and Caixabank SA (MC:CABK) shed 4.31% or 0.114 points to 2.531.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 102 to 84 and 23 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was down 0.34% or 4.10 to $1219.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $49.55 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.04% or 0.02 to trade at $49.76 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.16% to 1.1172, while EUR/GBP rose 0.50% to 0.7629.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.10% at 95.30.