Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 0.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Inditex (MC:ITX), which rose 1.79% or 0.530 points to trade at 30.100 at the close. Grifols SA (MC:GRLS) added 1.51% or 0.300 points to end at 20.110 and Ferrovial (MC:FER) was up 1.12% or 0.210 points to 18.950 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banco Popular (MC:POP), which lost 8.20% or 0.142 points to trade at 1.590 in late trade. Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE) declined 2.80% or 0.805 points to end at 27.960 and Acerinox (MC:ACX) shed 1.60% or 0.165 points to 10.165.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 103 to 89 and 14 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was down 0.57% or 7.00 to $1213.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.53% or 0.26 to hit $49.22 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.79% or 0.39 to trade at $49.20 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.53% to 1.1135, while EUR/GBP fell 0.25% to 0.7611.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.40% at 95.52.