Spain shares higher at close of trade; IBEX 35 up 0.65%

Investing.com – Spain equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Financial Services&Real Estate, Building&Construction and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares higher.

At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 added 0.65%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were ArcelorMittal SA (BME:MTS), which rose 6.60% or 1.53 points to trade at 24.70 at the close. Acerinox (BME:ACX) added 4.70% or 0.43 points to end at 9.47 and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA (BME:BBVA) was up 4.15% or 0.37 points to 9.34 in late trade.

Biggest losers included Laboratorios Farmaceuticos ROVI (BME:ROVI), which lost 12.29% or 9.30 points to trade at 66.35 in late trade. Telefonica (BME:TEF) declined 1.98% or 0.09 points to end at 4.20 and Aena SME SA (BME:AENA) shed 1.69% or 3.40 points to 198.00.

Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 138 to 59 and 22 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.

In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.03% or 27.50 to $2,703.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.54% or 0.39 to hit $72.08 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.61% or 0.46 to trade at $75.38 a barrel.

EUR/USD was up 0.61% to 1.08, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.16% to 0.83.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.62% at 104.33.