Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Consumer Services and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 1.22%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE), which rose 4.78% or 1.135 points to trade at 24.885 at the close. Meanwhile, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA (MC:GAM) added 4.30% or 0.435 points to end at 10.560 and B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) was up 3.76% or 0.062 points to 1.711 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Indra A (MC:IDR), which fell 0.86% or 0.105 points to trade at 12.065 at the close. Merlin Properties SA (MC:MRL) declined 0.68% or 0.07 points to end at 10.97 and Amadeus IT (MC:AMA) was down 0.60% or 0.370 points to 61.030.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 125 to 49 and 15 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.86% or 11.18 to $1283.72 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 1.95% or 1.13 to hit $56.86 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 1.85% or 1.17 to trade at $62.07 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.19% to 1.1862, while EUR/GBP fell 0.53% to 0.8826.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 93.09.