Investing.com – Spain stocks were lower after the close on Friday, 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 fell 1.34%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Gamesa (MC:GAM), which rose 6.00% or 1.055 points to trade at 18.645 at the close. Meanwhile, Bankia (MC:BKIA) added 3.66% or 0.031 points to end at 0.879 and International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. (MC:ICAG) was up 1.82% or 0.091 points to 5.088 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE), which fell 4.87% or 1.645 points to trade at 32.105 at the close. Banco Santander (MC:SAN) declined 4.04% or 0.179 points to end at 4.250 and ACS Const. (MC:ACS) was down 3.45% or 0.995 points to 27.850.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 143 to 57 and 21 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 2.68% or 33.90 to $1232.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 2.78% or 1.24 to hit $43.42 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 2.68% or 1.23 to trade at $44.61 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.52% to 1.0839, while EUR/GBP fell 0.93% to 0.8599.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.27% at 99.06.