Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Building & Construction and Consumer Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 added 1.98%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Sacyr (MC:SCYR), which rose 13.34% or 0.183 points to trade at 1.555 at the close. Meanwhile, Obrascon Huarte Lain (MC:OHL) added 9.66% or 0.369 points to end at 4.187 and Acerinox (MC:ACX) was up 6.84% or 0.640 points to 10.000 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Inditex (MC:ITX), which fell 1.47% or 0.435 points to trade at 29.265 at the close. FCC (MC:FCC) added 0.07% or 0.005 points to end at 7.573 and Enagas (MC:ENAG) was up 0.19% or 0.050 points to 25.990.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 146 to 37 and 26 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.49% or 6.40 to $1292.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 2.83% or 1.31 to hit $47.52 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 3.18% or 1.50 to trade at $48.69 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.37% to 1.1268, while EUR/GBP fell 0.39% to 0.7873.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.41% at 94.38.