Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Telecoms & IT and Consumer Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 gained 1.03%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Banco Popular (MC:POP), which rose 5.55% or 0.036 points to trade at 0.685 at the close. Meanwhile, Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS) added 3.55% or 0.238 points to end at 6.934 and Caixabank SA (MC:CABK) was up 3.43% or 0.127 points to 3.827 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Abertis Infr (MC:ABE), which fell 3.07% or 0.500 points to trade at 15.795 at the close. Iberdrola (MC:IBE) declined 1.26% or 0.084 points to end at 6.569 and Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX) was down 1.07% or 0.17 points to 15.23.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 102 to 62 and 13 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.86% or 11.10 to $1283.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 1.39% or 0.73 to hit $51.68 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 1.48% or 0.81 to trade at $54.08 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.17% to 1.0713, while EUR/GBP rose 0.29% to 0.8379.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.28% at 99.69.