Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Telecoms & IT, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Financial Services & Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 lost 0.27%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Enagas (MC:ENAG), which rose 0.76% or 0.200 points to trade at 26.380 at the close. International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. (MC:ICAG) added 0.70% or 0.032 points to end at 4.580 and Aena Aeropuertos SA (MC:AENA) was up 0.69% or 0.90 points to 131.45 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Repsol (MC:REP), which lost 2.41% or 0.285 points to trade at 11.555 in late trade. Tecnicas Reunidas (MC:TRE) declined 1.56% or 0.505 points to end at 31.845 and Arcel. Mittal (MC:MTS) shed 1.44% or 0.078 points to 5.331.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 130 to 65 and 26 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 1.05% or 14.05 to $1330.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 3.53% or 1.62 to hit $44.31 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 3.46% or 1.66 to trade at $46.27 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.34% to 1.1216, while EUR/GBP fell 0.65% to 0.8616.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.19% at 95.39.