Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Consumer Goods and Building & Construction sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 added 2.34%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Mapfre (MC:MAP), which rose 4.96% or 0.108 points to trade at 2.286 at the close. Meanwhile, Banco Popular (MC:POP) added 4.33% or 0.091 points to end at 2.191 and BBVA (MC:BBVA) was up 4.29% or 0.238 points to 5.788 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE), which rose 0.14% or 0.040 points to trade at 27.930 at the close. FCC (MC:FCC) added 0.23% or 0.017 points to end at 7.589 and Acerinox (MC:ACX) was up 0.39% or 0.039 points to 9.987.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 169 to 36 and 11 ended unchanged.
Gold for June delivery was down 1.75% or 21.85 to $1229.65 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 1.00% or 0.48 to hit $48.56 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.56% or 0.27 to trade at $48.62 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.66% to 1.1147, while EUR/GBP fell 1.69% to 0.7616.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.35% at 95.56.