Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Consumer Services and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 lost 0.50%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS), which rose 7.04% or 0.285 points to trade at 4.335 at the close. Meanwhile, Amadeus IT (MC:AMA) added 2.22% or 0.895 points to end at 41.245 and Acerinox (MC:ACX) was up 2.18% or 0.220 points to 10.330 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Banco Popular (MC:POP), which fell 26.49% or 0.624 points to trade at 1.732 at the close. B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) declined 5.00% or 0.085 points to end at 1.614 and Caixabank SA (MC:CABK) was down 4.31% or 0.114 points to 2.531.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 102 to 84 and 23 ended unchanged.
Shares in Banco Popular (MC:POP) fell to all time lows; down 26.49% or 0.624 to 1.732.
Gold for June delivery was down 0.34% or 4.15 to $1219.65 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $49.55 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.06% or 0.03 to trade at $49.77 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.16% to 1.1172, while EUR/GBP rose 0.50% to 0.7629.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.10% at 95.30.