Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Telecoms & IT, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Building & Construction sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 fell 1.14%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Caixabank SA (MC:CABK), which rose 1.08% or 0.026 points to trade at 2.440 at the close. Meanwhile, Bankinter (MC:BKT) added 0.82% or 0.053 points to end at 6.533 and B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) was up 0.52% or 0.008 points to 1.560 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS), which fell 5.79% or 0.242 points to trade at 3.941 at the close. Repsol (MC:REP) declined 4.32% or 0.505 points to end at 11.195 and Sacyr (MC:SCYR) was down 4.11% or 0.070 points to 1.634.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 154 to 36 and 25 ended unchanged.
Gold for June delivery was down 1.75% or 22.35 to $1252.05 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.95% or 0.46 to hit $47.73 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 1.19% or 0.58 to trade at $48.35 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.12% to 1.1203, while EUR/GBP fell 0.20% to 0.7669.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.11% at 95.30.