Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Telecoms & IT and Consumer Goods sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 1.24% to hit a new 1-month high.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Bankinter (MC:BKT), which rose 3.65% or 0.241 points to trade at 6.847 at the close. Meanwhile, BBVA (MC:BBVA) added 3.18% or 0.191 points to end at 6.203 and Caixabank SA (MC:CABK) was up 2.57% or 0.065 points to 2.598 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Aena Aeropuertos SA (MC:AENA), which fell 1.13% or 1.50 points to trade at 131.50 at the close. Gamesa (MC:GAM) declined 0.80% or 0.170 points to end at 21.120 and Abertis Infr (MC:ABE) was down 0.65% or 0.090 points to 13.740.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 123 to 72 and 16 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.26% or 3.35 to $1266.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 1.81% or 0.94 to hit $50.88 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 2.05% or 1.08 to trade at $51.59 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.39% to 1.0931, while EUR/GBP fell 0.12% to 0.8917.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.40% at 98.26.