Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Consumer Services and Building & Construction sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 added 3.21%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS), which rose 9.97% or 0.447 points to trade at 4.929 at the close. Meanwhile, B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) added 9.47% or 0.136 points to end at 1.572 and Mapfre (MC:MAP) was up 8.36% or 0.158 points to 2.047 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Grifols SA (MC:GRLS), which fell 1.15% or 0.225 points to trade at 19.290 at the close. Enagas (MC:ENAG) declined 0.20% or 0.055 points to end at 27.100 and Acciona (MC:ANA) was down 0.10% or 0.070 points to 68.710.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 158 to 41 and 20 ended unchanged.
Gold for June delivery was down 1.11% or 14.00 to $1246.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.90% or 0.38 to hit $41.79 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.94% or 0.42 to trade at $44.27 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.82% to 1.1290, while EUR/GBP fell 0.49% to 0.7943.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.72% at 94.70.