Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Telecoms & IT and Consumer Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 2.11%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS), which rose 6.46% or 0.292 points to trade at 4.809 at the close. Meanwhile, Acerinox (MC:ACX) added 5.37% or 0.503 points to end at 9.878 and Banco Santander (MC:SAN) was up 4.30% or 0.174 points to 4.224 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Enagas (MC:ENAG), which fell 0.35% or 0.095 points to trade at 26.750 at the close. Mediaset ESP (MC:TL5) declined 0.09% or 0.010 points to end at 11.440 and Merlin Properties SA (MC:MRL) was 0.00% or 0.00 points to 9.80.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 144 to 48 and 20 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.45% or 5.75 to $1264.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.65% or 0.32 to hit $49.45 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.70% or 0.35 to trade at $50.23 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.46% to 1.1349, while EUR/GBP fell 0.21% to 0.7660.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.29% at 93.54.