Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Consumer Goods, Consumer Services and Financial Services & Real Estate sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 lost 0.55%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX), which rose 4.48% or 0.91 points to trade at 21.24 at the close. Meanwhile, Merlin Properties SA (MC:MRL) added 2.50% or 0.28 points to end at 11.49 and Distribuidora Intl de Aliment (MC:DIDA) was up 2.32% or 0.093 points to 4.103 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Inditex (MC:ITX), which fell 7.06% or 1.900 points to trade at 25.000 at the close. International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (MC:ICAG) declined 5.19% or 0.366 points to end at 6.686 and B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) was down 3.64% or 0.066 points to 1.745.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 92 to 75 and 30 ended unchanged.
Shares in Inditex (MC:ITX) fell to 3-years lows; falling 7.06% or 1.900 to 25.000.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.13% or 1.70 to $1331.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 1.34% or 0.84 to hit $63.61 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 1.17% or 0.78 to trade at $67.17 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.24% to 1.2301, while EUR/GBP fell 0.41% to 0.8802.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.11% at 89.76.