Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic, Financial Services & Real Estate and Telecoms & IT sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 lost 0.89%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Mediaset ESP (MC:TL5), which rose 0.65% or 0.050 points to trade at 7.790 at the close. Meanwhile, Inditex (MC:ITX) added 0.58% or 0.170 points to end at 29.610 and Indra A (MC:IDR) was up 0.47% or 0.050 points to 10.680 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Cie Automotive (MC:CIEA), which fell 4.97% or 1.660 points to trade at 31.740 at the close. Iberdrola (MC:IBE) declined 2.28% or 0.150 points to end at 6.434 and Caixabank SA (MC:CABK) was down 1.99% or 0.074 points to 3.650.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 124 to 53 and 21 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.35% or 4.40 to $1270.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.11% or 0.07 to hit $65.64 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.43% or 1.07 to trade at $73.67 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.20% to 1.1597, while EUR/GBP fell 0.33% to 0.8758.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.20% at 94.59.