Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Consumer Goods, Telecoms & IT and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 lost 0.22%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Banco Popular (MC:POP), which rose 13.66% or 0.113 points to trade at 0.940 at the close. B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) added 4.08% or 0.048 points to end at 1.225 and Repsol (MC:REP) was up 2.34% or 0.295 points to 12.895 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Amadeus IT (MC:AMA), which lost 2.95% or 1.260 points to trade at 41.500 in late trade. Grifols SA (MC:GRLS) declined 2.16% or 0.400 points to end at 18.100 and Inditex (MC:ITX) shed 1.49% or 0.480 points to 31.795.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 123 to 86 and 14 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was down 0.55% or 6.45 to $1167.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 4.37% or 2.16 to hit $51.60 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 4.75% or 2.46 to trade at $54.30 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.34% to 1.0627, while EUR/GBP fell 0.30% to 0.8442.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.34% at 101.28.