Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Consumer Goods and Telecoms & IT sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 fell 0.02%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were ACS Const. (MC:ACS), which rose 2.80% or 0.800 points to trade at 29.360 at the close. Meanwhile, International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (MC:ICAG) added 1.99% or 0.110 points to end at 5.629 and Gamesa (MC:GAM) was up 1.98% or 0.395 points to 20.325 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE), which fell 1.69% or 0.625 points to trade at 36.315 at the close. Mapfre (MC:MAP) declined 1.66% or 0.048 points to end at 2.838 and Banco Santander (MC:SAN) was down 1.39% or 0.071 points to 5.047.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 80 to 80 and 19 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.68% or 8.35 to $1244.45 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.44% or 0.23 to hit $52.40 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.33% or 0.18 to trade at $55.23 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.22% to 1.0703, while EUR/GBP fell 0.01% to 0.8541.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 100.11.