Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Building & Construction, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Financial Services & Real Estate sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 added 0.64%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Repsol (MC:REP), which rose 3.73% or 0.435 points to trade at 12.105 at the close. Meanwhile, Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS) added 2.42% or 0.131 points to end at 5.555 and Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE) was up 2.19% or 0.740 points to 34.475 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. (MC:ICAG), which fell 1.43% or 0.066 points to trade at 4.559 at the close. Banco Popular (MC:POP) declined 0.92% or 0.010 points to end at 1.083 and Mediaset ESP (MC:TL5) was down 0.66% or 0.070 points to 10.530.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 135 to 57 and 24 ended unchanged.
Shares in Banco Popular (MC:POP) fell to all time lows; losing 0.92% or 0.010 to 1.083.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.09% or 1.15 to $1322.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 2.47% or 1.16 to hit $48.21 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 2.21% or 1.09 to trade at $50.33 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.24% to 1.1245, while EUR/GBP rose 0.42% to 0.8654.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.03% at 95.28.