Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Telecoms & IT and Building & Construction sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 0.39%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Gas Natural (MC:GAS), which rose 1.67% or 0.340 points to trade at 20.720 at the close. Meanwhile, International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (MC:ICAG) added 1.67% or 0.118 points to end at 7.170 and Inditex (MC:ITX) was up 1.47% or 0.360 points to 24.810 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Banco Santander (MC:SAN), which fell 3.25% or 0.181 points to trade at 5.393 at the close. B. Sabadell (MC:SABE) declined 2.52% or 0.044 points to end at 1.722 and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA (MC:GAM) was down 1.55% or 0.210 points to 13.370.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 91 to 86 and 24 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.74% or 9.80 to $1333.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.04% or 0.03 to hit $68.67 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.21% or 0.16 to trade at $74.87 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.17% to 1.2230, while EUR/GBP fell 0.10% to 0.8750.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 90.58.