Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Telecoms & IT and Building & Construction sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 fell 0.44%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX), which rose 1.65% or 0.36 points to trade at 22.18 at the close. Meanwhile, Merlin Properties SA (MC:MRL) added 0.96% or 0.11 points to end at 11.56 and Acerinox (MC:ACX) was up 0.72% or 0.085 points to 11.970 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bankia SA (MC:BKIA), which fell 2.20% or 0.095 points to trade at 4.230 at the close. Indra A (MC:IDR) declined 2.12% or 0.250 points to end at 11.570 and International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (MC:ICAG) was down 1.48% or 0.110 points to 7.322.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 120 to 58 and 21 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.13% or 1.80 to $1335.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.22% or 0.14 to hit $63.87 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.04% or 0.03 to trade at $69.18 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.21% to 1.2235, while EUR/GBP fell 0.46% to 0.8847.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.11% at 90.33.