Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Telecoms & IT sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 lost 0.91%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS), which rose 3.57% or 0.152 points to trade at 4.409 at the close. Meanwhile, Banco Popular (MC:POP) added 3.14% or 0.045 points to end at 1.480 and Acerinox (MC:ACX) was up 2.01% or 0.205 points to 10.400 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were B. Sabadell (MC:SABE), which fell 3.64% or 0.058 points to trade at 1.536 at the close. Bankia (MC:BKIA) declined 3.34% or 0.027 points to end at 0.781 and Mapfre (MC:MAP) was down 3.10% or 0.073 points to 2.278.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 107 to 92 and 15 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was up 0.08% or 0.95 to $1217.65 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 1.28% or 0.63 to hit $49.96 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.87% or 0.44 to trade at $50.80 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.04% to 1.1144, while EUR/GBP rose 0.93% to 0.7680.
The US Dollar Index was unchanged 0.00% at 95.72.