Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Building & Construction, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Telecoms & IT sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 0.08%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Grifols SA (MC:GRLS), which rose 3.83% or 0.730 points to trade at 19.800 at the close. Meanwhile, Melia Hotels (MC:MEL) added 3.69% or 0.400 points to end at 11.240 and B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) was up 2.43% or 0.032 points to 1.348 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Mapfre (MC:MAP), which fell 2.07% or 0.058 points to trade at 2.746 at the close. Enagas (MC:ENAG) declined 1.75% or 0.420 points to end at 23.590 and Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS) was down 1.63% or 0.126 points to 7.608.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 94 to 66 and 20 ended unchanged.
Gold for February delivery was down 1.13% or 13.70 to $1198.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.20% or 0.10 to hit $51.18 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.26% or 0.14 to trade at $54.06 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.13% to 1.0616, while EUR/GBP fell 0.36% to 0.8640.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.24% at 101.55.