Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Telecoms & IT and Consumer Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 lost 1.66%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS), which rose 3.83% or 0.147 points to trade at 3.980 at the close. Meanwhile, FCC (MC:FCC) fell 0.03% or 0.002 points to end at 7.582 and Acerinox (MC:ACX) was down 0.05% or 0.005 points to 10.180 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Distribuidora Intl de Aliment (MC:DIDA), which fell 3.91% or 0.186 points to trade at 4.566 at the close. Banco Popular (MC:POP) declined 3.01% or 0.071 points to end at 2.287 and B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) was down 2.65% or 0.043 points to 1.582.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 156 to 47 and 22 ended unchanged.
Gold for June delivery was up 0.59% or 7.20 to $1235.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.13% or 0.05 to hit $38.27 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.32% or 0.13 to trade at $40.18 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.41% to 1.1384, while EUR/GBP rose 0.30% to 0.7909.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.26% at 94.54.