Investing.com – Spain stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Building & Construction sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 gained 1.14%.
The best performers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Caixabank SA (MC:CABK), which rose 2.74% or 0.114 points to trade at 4.270 at the close. Meanwhile, Bankia (MC:BKIA) added 2.33% or 0.024 points to end at 1.053 and Banco Santander (MC:SAN) was up 2.29% or 0.131 points to 5.839 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Cellnex Telecom SA (MC:CLNX), which fell 1.40% or 0.24 points to trade at 17.29 at the close. Merlin Properties SA (MC:MRL) declined 0.80% or 0.09 points to end at 11.12 and Grifols SA (MC:GRLS) was down 0.78% or 0.195 points to 24.905.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 126 to 58 and 16 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.56% or 7.02 to $1254.38 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.20% or 0.10 to hit $51.23 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.13% or 0.07 to trade at $53.94 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.41% to 1.1191, while EUR/GBP fell 0.20% to 0.8626.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.31% at 97.18.