MADRID, 17 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ibex 35 has opened the session this Wednesday with a rise of 0.1%, which has allowed the selective to hold the level of 8,500 points achieved on Tuesday.
Specifically, after chaining its eleventh consecutive rise yesterday in what is its best streak since September 2018, the Madrid index opened today’s session at around 8,522 points.
Investors will be aware this Wednesday of the publication of the minutes of the last meeting of the Federal Reserve of the United States (Fed), of macroeconomic references such as GDP and employment in the eurozone, as well as certain business results, among them the from Cisco.
The main European markets also woke up positively, with advances of 0.2% in London and 0.17% in Paris, while Frankfurt traded practically flat, although with a positive sign (0.07%).
Within the Ibex 35, the biggest rises in the early stages of the session were scored by the banks: BBVA rose 1.5%, while CaixaBank and Sabadell advanced 1%. Bankinter, for its part, rose 0.9% and Santander, 0.7%.
On the decrease side, Enagás (-0.8%) and PharmaMar, Red Eléctrica and Colonial stood out, falling 0.4% as soon as the stock market opened.
At the opening of the European markets, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, stood at a price of 93.19 dollars, with an advance of 0.9%, while the Texas price was trading at $87.42, after rising just over 1%.
In the currency market, the euro lost some ground against the dollar and traded at 1.0164 ‘greenbacks’, while in the debt market the risk premium was around 113 basis points, with the return on the Spanish bond at 10 years at 2.109%.
