MADRID, 17 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ibex 35 lost 0.37% in the mid-session, which led it to trade below the 8,500 points achieved yesterday, in a session marked by the publication of the minutes of the last meeting of the Reserve Federal (Fed) of the United States and macroeconomic data.
While waiting to know the minutes of the Fed, investors have already received some references in the early hours of the morning: on the one hand, the GDP of the eurozone grew in the second quarter of 2022 by 0.6% compared to three previous months, when it had registered an expansion of 0.5%, according to the second reading of the data published by Eurostat, which lowers the first estimate by one tenth.
In the European Union as a whole, the rate of GDP growth also remained at 0.6%, despite the impact of the war in Ukraine. Compared to the second quarter of 2021, the progression of activity in the euro zone was 3.9% and 4% for the Twenty-seven.
In the United Kingdom, the year-on-year inflation rate stood at 10.1% last July, compared to 9.4% registered in June, which represents the largest increase in prices since 1982. It is the largest interannual inflation rate registered in a month of the current historical series, which began in January 1997.
In this context, the Ibex 35 was trading at 8,480.00 integers, with BBVA (0.68%), Acciona Energía (0.52%), Cellnex (0.33%), Red Eléctrica (0.28%), Naturgy (0.24%), Ferrovial (0.19%), Iberdrola (0.14%) and Rovi (0.10%) as the only increases in the mid-session.
On the other hand, the most notable falls were registered by Colonial (-1.96%), Grifols (-1.96%), Meliá (-1.77%), IAG (-1.585), Aena (-1.53 %), Fluidra (-1.51%) and ArcelorMittal (-1.51%).
The main European markets were also trading in negative, with declines of 0.33% in London, 0.42% in Paris, 0.74% in Frankfurt. Only Milan rose 0.24%.
The price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, stood at a price of 93.07 dollars, with an advance of 0.8%, while the Texas price was trading at 87.30 dollars, after rising a 0.8%.
In the currency market, the euro lost some ground against the dollar and traded at 1.0177 ‘greenbacks’, while in the debt market the risk premium was around 111 basis points, with the return on the Spanish bond at 10 years in 2,197%.
