Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Consumer Goods, Telecoms & IT and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 0.22%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Banco Popular (MC:POP), which rose 13.66% or 0.113 points to trade at 0.940 at the close. Meanwhile, B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) added 4.08% or 0.048 points to end at 1.225 and Repsol (MC:REP) was up 2.34% or 0.295 points to 12.895 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Amadeus IT (MC:AMA), which fell 2.95% or 1.260 points to trade at 41.500 at the close. Grifols SA (MC:GRLS) declined 2.16% or 0.400 points to end at 18.100 and Inditex (MC:ITX) was down 1.49% or 0.480 points to 31.795.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 123 to 86 and 14 ended unchanged.
Gold for February delivery was down 0.59% or 6.90 to $1167.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 4.35% or 2.15 to hit $51.59 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 4.71% or 2.44 to trade at $54.28 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.34% to 1.0627, while EUR/GBP fell 0.27% to 0.8444.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.34% at 101.28.