Spain shares lower at close of trade; IBEX 35 down 0.84%

Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Financial Services&Real Estate, Consumer Services and Chemical, Petroleum&Plastic sectors propelled shares lower.

At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 declined 0.84%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Mapfre (BME:MAP), which rose 4.99% or 0.13 points to trade at 2.69 at the close. Laboratorios Farmaceuticos ROVI (BME:ROVI) added 2.69% or 2.05 points to end at 78.30 and Unicaja Banco SA (BME:UNI) was up 0.55% or 0.01 points to 1.09 in late trade.

Biggest losers included Acerinox (BME:ACX), which lost 5.01% or 0.46 points to trade at 8.63 in late trade. Banco Santander (BME:SAN) declined 3.01% or 0.14 points to end at 4.49 and Sacyr SA (BME:SCYR) shed 2.90% or 0.09 points to 3.08.

Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 106 to 77 and 33 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.

In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.99% or 27.35 to $2,783.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.43% or 0.29 to hit $67.09 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.51% or 0.36 to trade at $70.64 a barrel.

EUR/USD was unchanged 0.06% to 1.08, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.31% to 0.83.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.05% at 104.24.