Market Summary

Spain stocks closed lower on Wednesday, primarily due to declines in the Building & Construction, Telecoms & IT, and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors.

At the end of trading in Madrid, the IBEX 35 lost 0.70%.

Best Performers

• Puig Brands SA (BME:PUIGb): +9.22% (+1.80 points) at 21.26
• Grifols SA (BME:GRLS): +3.51% (+0.35 points) at 10.32
• Unicaja Banco SA (BME:UNI): +2.20% (+0.02 points) at 1.11

Worst Performers

• Mapfre (BME:MAP): -2.23% (-0.06 points) at 2.63
• Ferrovial (BME:FER): -2.22% (-0.84 points) at 37.00
• Redeia Corporacion SA (BME:REDE): -1.44% (-0.24 points) at 16.48

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Madrid Stock Exchange by 114 to 80, with 21 ending unchanged.

Commodities Update

• Gold Futures (December): +0.60% (+16.55) at $2,797.65 a troy ounce
• Crude Oil (December): +1.99% (+1.34) at $68.55 a barrel
• Brent Oil (January): +1.91% (+1.35) at $72.08 a barrel

Currency Exchange

• EUR/USD: Unchanged at 1.09
• EUR/GBP: Unchanged at 0.84

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.23% at 103.95.