Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Telecoms & IT, Consumer Services and Building & Construction sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 gained 0.27%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (MC:ICAG), which rose 3.88% or 0.205 points to trade at 5.484 at the close. Meanwhile, Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS) added 3.74% or 0.265 points to end at 7.355 and Telefonica (MC:TEF) was up 2.12% or 0.190 points to 9.143 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Inditex (MC:ITX), which fell 1.63% or 0.520 points to trade at 31.450 at the close. Viscofan (MC:VIS) declined 1.14% or 0.565 points to end at 48.855 and Gamesa (MC:GAM) was down 0.46% or 0.090 points to 19.390.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 105 to 61 and 16 ended unchanged.
Gold for February delivery was up 1.53% or 17.85 to $1183.15 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.13% or 0.07 to hit $53.33 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.18% or 0.10 to trade at $56.56 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 1.03% to 1.0596, while EUR/GBP rose 0.36% to 0.8542.
The US Dollar Index was down 1.00% at 101.47.