Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Chemical, Petroleum&Plastic and Financial Services&Real Estate sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 1.04%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Inditex (MC:ITX), which rose 3.91% or 1.050 points to trade at 27.920 at the close. Meanwhile, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA (MC:GAM) added 2.97% or 0.410 points to end at 14.200 and Repsol (MC:REP) was up 2.03% or 0.340 points to 17.090 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX), which fell 2.14% or 0.50 points to trade at 22.88 at the close. Indra A (MC:IDR) declined 2.01% or 0.230 points to end at 11.200 and Merlin Properties SA (MC:MRL) was down 0.89% or 0.11 points to 12.28.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 120 to 59 and 25 ended unchanged.
Shares in Repsol (MC:REP) rose to 3-years highs; up 2.03% or 0.340 to 17.090.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.09% or 1.10 to $1290.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.21% or 0.15 to hit $71.64 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.83% or 0.66 to trade at $79.94 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.03% to 1.1805, while EUR/GBP fell 0.29% to 0.8729.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.05% at 93.32.
