Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Consumer Services, Financial Services & Real Estate and Telecoms & IT sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 0.54%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Indra A (MADRID:IDR), which rose 1.95% or 0.180 points to trade at 9.409 at the close. Meanwhile, Red Electrica Corp. (MADRID:REE) added 1.53% or 1.100 points to end at 73.010 and Acciona (MADRID:ANA) was up 1.29% or 0.850 points to 66.580 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Repsol (MADRID:REP), which fell 2.59% or 0.432 points to trade at 16.238 at the close. Arcel. Mittal (MADRID:MTS) declined 1.94% or 0.181 points to end at 9.144 and Abengoa B (MADRID:ABGek) was down 1.38% or 0.040 points to 2.860.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 136 to 74 and 5 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was up 1.97% or 23.20 to $1200.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.80% or 0.48 to hit $60.81 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.88% or 0.56 to trade at $64.44 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.59% to 1.1405, while EUR/GBP rose 0.35% to 0.7185.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.44% at 94.06.