Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Telecoms & IT and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 fell 1.30%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Banco Popular (MC:POP), which rose 7.30% or 0.108 points to trade at 1.588 at the close. Gamesa (MC:GAM) added 1.37% or 0.245 points to end at 18.150 and FCC (MC:FCC) was up 0.26% or 0.020 points to 7.590 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sacyr (MC:SCYR), which lost 4.76% or 0.087 points to trade at 1.740 in late trade. Int.Airl.Grp (MC:ICAG) declined 3.56% or 0.250 points to end at 6.775 and Banco Santander (MC:SAN) shed 2.77% or 0.119 points to 4.172.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 130 to 56 and 19 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was down 0.58% or 7.05 to $1210.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.47% or 0.23 to hit $48.87 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.32% or 0.16 to trade at $49.73 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.34% to 1.1170, while EUR/GBP rose 1.06% to 0.7752.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.32% at 95.52.