Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, 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 fell 1.12%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. (MC:ICAG), which rose 1.32% or 0.064 points to trade at 4.902 at the close. Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE) added 0.58% or 0.200 points to end at 34.365 and Mapfre (MC:MAP) was up 0.33% or 0.009 points to 2.716 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Indra A (MC:IDR), which lost 2.92% or 0.330 points to trade at 10.955 in late trade. Banco Popular (MC:POP) declined 2.70% or 0.027 points to end at 0.972 and Merlin Properties SA (MC:MRL) shed 2.34% or 0.24 points to 10.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 137 to 46 and 28 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 1.19% or 15.15 to $1288.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.81% or 0.38 to hit $46.48 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.07% or 0.52 to trade at $48.09 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.67% to 1.1054, while EUR/GBP rose 0.80% to 0.9036.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.56% at 97.77.