Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Building & Construction and Telecoms & IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 0.54%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Indra A (MC:IDR), which rose 3.03% or 0.365 points to trade at 12.410 at the close. Enagas (MC:ENAG) added 1.59% or 0.390 points to end at 24.900 and Grifols SA (MC:GRLS) was up 1.48% or 0.340 points to 23.395 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS), which lost 4.60% or 0.345 points to trade at 7.150 in late trade. Banco Popular (MC:POP) declined 4.37% or 0.029 points to end at 0.634 and Acerinox (MC:ACX) shed 2.89% or 0.385 points to 12.940.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 94 to 72 and 14 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.17% or 2.15 to $1276.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.56% or 0.30 to hit $53.10 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.71% or 0.40 to trade at $55.83 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.02% to 1.0606, while EUR/GBP fell 0.04% to 0.8487.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 100.61.