Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Consumer Services, Telecoms & IT and Consumer Goods sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 added 0.33%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were DIA (MADRID:DIDA), which rose 3.55% or 0.258 points to trade at 7.534 at the close. Meanwhile, Int.Airl.Grp (MADRID:ICAG) added 2.91% or 0.231 points to end at 8.162 and Gamesa (MADRID:GAM) was up 2.73% or 0.325 points to 12.230 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Banco Popular (MADRID:POP), which fell 3.07% or 0.138 points to trade at 4.358 at the close. Abengoa B (MADRID:ABGek) declined 2.15% or 0.068 points to end at 3.092 and Sacyr (MADRID:SCYR) was down 1.96% or 0.080 points to 4.005.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 121 to 80 and 3 ended unchanged.
Gold for June delivery was up 0.70% or 8.30 to $1202.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.76% or 0.44 to hit $57.44 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.91% or 0.57 to trade at $62.88 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.22% to 1.0761, while EUR/GBP fell 0.20% to 0.7188.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.21% at 97.95.