Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Building & Construction sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 fell 0.26%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Obrascon Huarte Lain (MADRID:OHL), which rose 6.23% or 1.075 points to trade at 18.335 at the close. Meanwhile, Int.Airl.Grp (MADRID:ICAG) added 2.04% or 0.163 points to end at 8.152 and Mapfre (MADRID:MAP) was up 0.81% or 0.027 points to 3.347 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Abengoa B (MADRID:ABGek), which fell 3.81% or 0.110 points to trade at 2.780 at the close. Bankia (MADRID:BKIA) declined 1.59% or 0.019 points to end at 1.173 and FCC (MADRID:FCC) was down 1.15% or 0.108 points to 9.294.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 136 to 74 and 5 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was down 1.08% or 12.30 to $1131.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.47% or 0.24 to hit $50.67 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.17% or 0.10 to trade at $57.02 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.25% to 1.0849, while EUR/GBP fell 0.37% to 0.6942.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.22% at 97.98.