MADRID, 21 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ibex 35 began this Tuesday’s session with a fall of 0.1%, which brought it to 11,328.2 points, on a day in which investors will be watching Telefónica, after the State Society of Industrial Participations (SEPI), an entity dependent on the Ministry of Finance, has reached 10% of the operator’s share capital.
In this context, SEPI, which completed the mandate of the Government transferred at the end of last year, has acquired a total of 567,016,155 shares with an average price of 4.0295 euros per share, so the amount of the operation It amounts to almost 2,285 million euros, although to this share package we must add 541 titles that the entity dependent on the Treasury already had in its portfolio and which raise the total number to 567,016,696, as reported this Monday in a statement after the closing. From the market.
Precisely, at the opening this Tuesday, the value that rose the most was Telefónica (0.76%), followed by Cellnex (0.51%), Sacyr (0.38%) and Rovi, which advanced 0.34% , while on the opposite side were Solaria (-5.55%), Banco Santander (-0.9%) and IAG (-0.73%).
Also in the business field, Squirrel Media announced this Tuesday the purchase of the advertising agency IKI Group, which will allow it to double its business volume and lead the Spanish independent advertising market. Its shares soared more than 6% in the early stages of the stock market, up to 1.69 euros per share.
During this day, the Council of Ministers will approve, among other issues, the unemployment benefit reform signed between the Ministry of Labor and CC.OO. and UGT on May 8 and with which Spain complies with one of the milestones associated with the fourth payment of European funds.
For the next few days, analysts indicate that investors will be awaiting a series of preliminary PMIs for the month of May, which will be known this Thursday for the United States, the eurozone, the United Kingdom and Japan. In addition, April inflation will be known in the British Isles, while in the United States the minutes of the Federal Reserve (Fed) meeting at the beginning of May will be published.
On the other hand, the markets will be attentive tomorrow to the publication of Nvidia’s quarterly results, at the close of the session in Europe.
The main European stock markets opened today’s day in ‘red’, with falls of 0.55% for Milan, 0.47% for Paris, 0.42% for London and 0.16% for Frankfurt.
The price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, fell 0.68% at the opening of the European markets, to 83.14 dollars, while Texas stood at 78.75 dollars. 0.69% less.
In the foreign exchange market, the price of the euro against the dollar remained at 1.0860 ‘greenbacks’, while in the debt market the interest required on the 10-year Spanish bond fell to 3.278%.