Spain stocks higher at close of trade; IBEX 35 up 0.46%

Spain stocks higher at close of trade; IBEX 35 up 0.46%

Sep 18, 2018

Spain stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Financial Services&Real Estate, Consumer Goods and Building&Construction sectors led shares higher.

At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 gained 0.46%.

The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Grifols SA (MC:GRLS), which rose 2.83% or 0.670 points to trade at 24.350 at the close. Meanwhile, Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX) added 2.67% or 0.59 points to end at 22.70 and Indra A (MC:IDR) was up 1.53% or 0.150 points to 9.950 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Mediaset ESP (MC:TL5), which fell 1.46% or 0.094 points to trade at 6.366 at the close. Endesa (MC:ELE) declined 1.03% or 0.195 points to end at 18.825 and Amadeus IT (MC:AMA) was down 0.86% or 0.680 points to 78.260.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 111 to 58 and 28 ended unchanged.

Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.21% or 2.50 to $1203.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 1.15% or 0.79 to hit $69.47 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 1.08% or 0.84 to trade at $78.89 a barrel.

EUR/USD was down 0.10% to 1.1671, while EUR/GBP fell 0.04% to 0.8876.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 94.18.

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