Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic, Building & Construction and Telecoms & IT sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 gained 0.80%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Mediaset ESP (MC:TL5), which rose 3.40% or 0.395 points to trade at 12.010 at the close. Meanwhile, Obrascon Huarte Lain (MC:OHL) added 3.07% or 0.147 points to end at 4.933 and Sacyr (MC:SCYR) was up 2.96% or 0.052 points to 1.811 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Banco Popular (MC:POP), which fell 2.88% or 0.044 points to trade at 1.485 at the close. Bankia (MC:BKIA) declined 0.39% or 0.003 points to end at 0.765 and Distribuidora Intl de Aliment (MC:DIDA) was down 0.20% or 0.011 points to 5.382.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 139 to 53 and 19 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.07% or 0.85 to $1246.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.76% or 0.38 to hit $50.07 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 1.13% or 0.57 to trade at $51.12 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.05% to 1.1349, while EUR/GBP fell 0.85% to 0.7796.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.13% at 93.91.