Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Telecoms & IT, Consumer Services and Financial Services & Real Estate sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 gained 2.36%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Repsol (MC:REP), which rose 4.87% or 0.552 points to trade at 11.893 at the close. Meanwhile, Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE) added 4.14% or 1.500 points to end at 37.750 and Sacyr (MC:SCYR) was up 3.43% or 0.075 points to 2.275 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Acciona (MC:ANA), which rose 0.10% or 0.075 points to trade at 77.275 at the close. FCC (MC:FCC) added 0.47% or 0.032 points to end at 6.860 and Ferrovial (MC:FER) was up 0.90% or 0.200 points to 22.340.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 177 to 39 and 3 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 1.51% or 16.40 to $1067.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 2.37% or 0.99 to hit $40.75 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.81% or 0.81 to trade at $43.76 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.42% to 1.0642, while EUR/GBP fell 0.53% to 0.6993.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.27% at 99.74.