Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Telecoms & IT and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 1.30%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Banco Popular (MC:POP), which rose 7.30% or 0.108 points to trade at 1.588 at the close. Meanwhile, Gamesa (MC:GAM) added 1.37% or 0.245 points to end at 18.150 and FCC (MC:FCC) was up 0.26% or 0.020 points to 7.590 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Sacyr (MC:SCYR), which fell 4.76% or 0.087 points to trade at 1.740 at the close. Int.Airl.Grp (MC:ICAG) declined 3.56% or 0.250 points to end at 6.775 and Banco Santander (MC:SAN) was down 2.77% or 0.119 points to 4.172.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 130 to 56 and 19 ended unchanged.
Shares in Gamesa (MC:GAM) rose to 5-year highs; up 1.37% or 0.245 to 18.150.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.59% or 7.15 to $1210.35 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.49% or 0.24 to hit $48.86 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.32% or 0.16 to trade at $49.73 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.34% to 1.1170, while EUR/GBP rose 1.06% to 0.7752.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.32% at 95.52.