Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Financial Services & Real Estate and Telecoms & IT sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 rose 1.84%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Inditex (MC:ITX), which rose 3.94% or 1.215 points to trade at 32.060 at the close. Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE) added 3.64% or 1.070 points to end at 30.480 and Caixabank SA (MC:CABK) was up 3.61% or 0.079 points to 2.267 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Abertis Infr (MC:ABE), which lost 0.43% or 0.060 points to trade at 13.795 in late trade. Viscofan (MC:VIS) declined 0.35% or 0.175 points to end at 49.100 and Ferrovial (MC:FER) shed 0.28% or 0.050 points to 17.655.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 149 to 40 and 25 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 1.71% or 23.45 to $1343.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.81% or 0.34 to hit $41.59 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.77% or 0.34 to trade at $43.95 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.43% to 1.1082, while EUR/GBP fell 0.12% to 0.8481.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.50% at 96.23.