Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Building & Construction, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Consumer Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 gained 0.81%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA (MC:GAM), which rose 9.90% or 0.912 points to trade at 10.125 at the close. Meanwhile, Mediaset ESP (MC:TL5) added 4.87% or 0.454 points to end at 9.778 and Repsol (MC:REP) was up 1.87% or 0.280 points to 15.265 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Acciona (MC:ANA), which fell 0.94% or 0.640 points to trade at 67.480 at the close. Merlin Properties SA (MC:MRL) declined 0.58% or 0.07 points to end at 11.05 and Bankia SA (MC:BKIA) was down 0.43% or 0.017 points to 3.901.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 125 to 51 and 25 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.08% or 1.10 to $1295.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.24% or 0.14 to hit $57.97 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.25% or 0.16 to trade at $63.22 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.12% to 1.1884, while EUR/GBP rose 0.52% to 0.8978.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.20% at 93.04.