Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Financial Services & Real Estate and Telecoms & IT sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 gained 1.84%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Inditex (MC:ITX), which rose 3.94% or 1.215 points to trade at 32.060 at the close. Meanwhile, Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE) added 3.64% or 1.070 points to end at 30.480 and Caixabank SA (MC:CABK) was up 3.61% or 0.079 points to 2.267 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Abertis Infr (MC:ABE), which fell 0.43% or 0.060 points to trade at 13.795 at the close. Viscofan (MC:VIS) declined 0.35% or 0.175 points to end at 49.100 and Ferrovial (MC:FER) was down 0.28% or 0.050 points to 17.655.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 149 to 40 and 25 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 1.71% or 23.45 to $1343.95 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.83% or 0.35 to hit $41.58 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.77% or 0.34 to trade at $43.95 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.41% to 1.1084, while EUR/GBP fell 0.12% to 0.8481.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.49% at 96.22.