Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Building & Construction sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 fell 0.57%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Viscofan (MC:VIS), which rose 2.93% or 1.420 points to trade at 49.895 at the close. Meanwhile, Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX) added 2.14% or 0.30 points to end at 14.34 and International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (MC:ICAG) was up 1.11% or 0.066 points to 6.005 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Repsol (MC:REP), which fell 1.94% or 0.270 points to trade at 13.625 at the close. Mapfre (MC:MAP) declined 1.70% or 0.050 points to end at 2.886 and Bankinter (MC:BKT) was down 1.67% or 0.123 points to 7.249.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 107 to 52 and 24 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.15% or 1.85 to $1239.75 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.51% or 0.27 to hit $53.09 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.18% or 0.10 to trade at $55.55 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.55% to 1.0615, while EUR/GBP fell 0.07% to 0.8541.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.42% at 100.87.