Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Telecoms & IT and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 0.72%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Abengoa B (MADRID:ABGek), which rose 2.39% or 0.068 points to trade at 2.915 at the close. Meanwhile, Int.Airl.Grp (MADRID:ICAG) added 1.59% or 0.120 points to end at 7.680 and Indra A (MADRID:IDR) was up 1.52% or 0.136 points to 9.088 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were FCC (MADRID:FCC), which fell 3.58% or 0.368 points to trade at 9.912 at the close. Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles (MADRID:BME) declined 3.15% or 1.220 points to end at 37.525 and Sacyr (MADRID:SCYR) was down 2.41% or 0.097 points to 3.923.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 152 to 57 and 4 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was down 1.45% or 17.50 to $1187.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 2.56% or 1.53 to hit $58.19 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 2.79% or 1.82 to trade at $63.70 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.87% to 1.0883, while EUR/GBP fell 0.39% to 0.7068.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.88% at 97.31.