Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Telecoms & IT, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Consumer Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 0.37%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Telefonica (MC:TEF), which rose 1.43% or 0.125 points to trade at 8.847 at the close. Meanwhile, Grifols SA (MC:GRLS) added 1.33% or 0.245 points to end at 18.680 and Merlin Properties SA (MC:MRL) was up 1.13% or 0.12 points to 10.29 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Banco Popular (MC:POP), which fell 3.29% or 0.031 points to trade at 0.911 at the close. Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS) declined 1.15% or 0.082 points to end at 7.075 and ACS Const. (MC:ACS) was down 0.99% or 0.300 points to 30.000.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 95 to 69 and 18 ended unchanged.
Gold for February delivery was up 0.27% or 3.05 to $1133.75 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.23% or 0.12 to hit $52.83 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.15% or 0.08 to trade at $54.97 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.13% to 1.0450, while EUR/GBP rose 0.35% to 0.8527.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.07% at 103.00.