Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 fell 0.42%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Banco Popular (MC:POP), which rose 2.11% or 0.016 points to trade at 0.774 at the close. ACS Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA (MC:ACS) added 1.70% or 0.590 points to end at 35.280 and Amadeus IT (MC:AMA) was up 1.69% or 0.870 points to 52.450 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Endesa (MC:ELE), which lost 4.11% or 0.935 points to trade at 21.825 in late trade. BBVA (MC:BBVA) declined 2.02% or 0.157 points to end at 7.605 and Bankinter (MC:BKT) shed 1.80% or 0.155 points to 8.475.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 113 to 74 and 15 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.75% or 9.17 to $1217.93 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 1.10% or 0.51 to hit $45.92 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 1.07% or 0.53 to trade at $48.81 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.45% to 1.0875, while EUR/GBP fell 0.41% to 0.8405.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.45% at 99.48.