Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Telecoms & IT and Financial Services & Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 0.35%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Grifols SA (MC:GRLS), which rose 1.23% or 0.285 points to trade at 23.390 at the close. Viscofan (MC:VIS) added 1.05% or 0.500 points to end at 48.215 and Mapfre (MC:MAP) was up 1.04% or 0.033 points to 3.191 in late trade.
Biggest losers included B. Sabadell (MC:SABE), which lost 1.62% or 0.027 points to trade at 1.644 in late trade. Banco Popular (MC:POP) declined 1.23% or 0.010 points to end at 0.805 and Acerinox (MC:ACX) shed 1.18% or 0.155 points to 13.000.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 93 to 73 and 12 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.35% or 4.35 to $1258.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 1.65% or 0.83 to hit $51.07 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 1.94% or 1.03 to trade at $54.15 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.03% to 1.0667, while EUR/GBP rose 0.40% to 0.8578.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 100.46.