The main Spanish stock index Ibex-35 closed this Tuesday at its lowest level since the end of May due to concerns about a context of high interest rates for longer, spurred by the data on job offers in the United States, which increased unexpectedly in August, pointing to the resilience of its labor market.

Job openings, a gauge of labor demand, rose by 690,000 jobs to 9.610 million on the last day of August, the Labor Department's monthly JOLTS report showed, above the 8.800 million vacancies forecast by economists polled by Reuters.

"That jobs data has given even more credence to the latest hawkish messaging from the Fed, with markets now seeing at least another rate hike before the end of the year as more likely," said Stuart Cole, economist at Equiti Capital.

A scenario of higher interest rates for longer sent 10-year and 30-year U.S. Treasury yields soaring to 2007 highs as global stock indexes resumed their September slide and traded at multi-month lows.

Spain's selective Ibex-35 closed with a drop of 153.50 points on Tuesday, down 1.65%, the biggest in two months, to 9,165.50 points, its lowest level since the end of May.

Within the Spanish selective, Cellnex took the worst hit, followed by Colonial and the energy companies, more sensitive to the tightening of the central banks' monetary policy.

In the banking sector, Santander lost 0.49%, BBVA gained 0.52%, Caixabank dropped 1.33%, Sabadell fell 1.27%, Bankinter gained 1.21% and Unicaja Banco lost 2.33%.

Among the large non-financial stocks, Telefónica fell 1.26%, Inditex dropped 1.24%, Iberdrola dropped 3.63%, Cellnex fell 6.15% and the oil company Repsol lost 2.15%.

(Report by Matteo Allievi; edited by Benjamín Mejías Valencia)