Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Telecoms & IT and Building & Construction sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 added 2.32%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Sacyr (MC:SCYR), which rose 7.92% or 0.138 points to trade at 1.880 at the close. Meanwhile, Banco Popular (MC:POP) added 7.53% or 0.165 points to end at 2.356 and Caixabank SA (MC:CABK) was up 6.27% or 0.156 points to 2.645 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Aena Aeropuertos SA (MC:AENA), which fell 3.89% or 4.85 points to trade at 119.75 at the close. Abertis Infr (MC:ABE) declined 0.82% or 0.120 points to end at 14.555 and Inditex (MC:ITX) was down 0.63% or 0.185 points to 29.320.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 135 to 59 and 20 ended unchanged.
Gold for June delivery was down 0.59% or 7.20 to $1222.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.70% or 0.34 to hit $48.96 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 1.11% or 0.54 to trade at $49.15 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.12% to 1.1154, while EUR/GBP fell 0.29% to 0.7592.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.13% at 95.47.