Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Telecoms & IT sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 0.01%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX), which rose 1.40% or 0.19 points to trade at 13.76 at the close. Meanwhile, Iberdrola (MC:IBE) added 1.01% or 0.060 points to end at 6.007 and Banco Santander (MC:SAN) was up 0.90% or 0.046 points to 5.133 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Grifols SA (MC:GRLS), which fell 1.94% or 0.385 points to trade at 19.415 at the close. Acciona (MC:ANA) declined 1.71% or 1.270 points to end at 73.030 and Enagas (MC:ENAG) was down 1.15% or 0.270 points to 23.320.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 79 to 75 and 28 ended unchanged.
Gold for February delivery was up 0.35% or 4.15 to $1205.65 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 2.49% or 1.30 to hit $53.42 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 2.55% or 1.38 to trade at $55.54 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.20% to 1.0686, while EUR/GBP rose 0.22% to 0.8658.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.14% at 100.96.