Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Consumer Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 added 1.56% to hit a new 3-months high.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Sacyr (MC:SCYR), which rose 8.36% or 0.148 points to trade at 1.918 at the close. Meanwhile, BBVA (MC:BBVA) added 5.30% or 0.340 points to end at 6.757 and Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE) was up 4.03% or 1.180 points to 30.435 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Acerinox (MC:ACX), which fell 3.28% or 0.365 points to trade at 10.765 at the close. Grifols SA (MC:GRLS) declined 1.29% or 0.255 points to end at 19.545 and Inditex (MC:ITX) was down 0.84% or 0.245 points to 28.975.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 136 to 64 and 15 ended unchanged.
Gold for June delivery was up 0.23% or 2.90 to $1243.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 3.24% or 1.38 to hit $44.02 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 3.00% or 1.33 to trade at $45.65 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.35% to 1.1307, while EUR/GBP fell 0.49% to 0.7742.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.34% at 94.42.