MADRID, 23 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ibex 35 has started the session this Wednesday with a rise of 0.21%, which has allowed the selective to reach 9,333 points, in a day in which investors will be awaiting the publication of the PMI for services and manufacturing of the eurozone and countries such as Germany, France, Spain and the United States.
For now, the preliminary PMIs for Japan have already been released, which suggest that Japanese activity expanded in August thanks to the service sector, as the industrial sector continued to show weakness.
In addition, the markets will remain attentive this Wednesday to the publication in the United States of construction permits and new home sales, as well as Nvidia’s results.
However, this week’s big event will be the Jackson Hole central bankers’ summit, which will start tomorrow and whose main course will be the interventions of the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, and the president of the Federal Reserve of the United States (Fed), Jerome Powell, scheduled for Friday.
Waiting for what both can advance on the evolution of interest rates, the main European stock markets opened positive this Wednesday. Thus, Frankfurt, Paris and Milan advanced more than 0.3% at the opening, while London appreciated 0.15%.
In the early stages of the session this Wednesday, at 9:09 a.m., most of the Ibex 35 values were trading positive. Only Grifols, Mapfre and Inditex registered losses of 1.4%, 0.16% and 0.12%, respectively.
At the other extreme, the largest increases in the selective were recorded by Red Eléctrica (1.1%), ArcelorMittal (0.92%), Solaria (0.89%), Acerinox (0.77%) and Enagás (0. 73%).
At the opening of the stock market, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, fell 0.4%, to $83.69, while Texas stood at $79.35, a 0.38% less.
In the currency market, the value of the euro against the dollar climbed to 1.0863 ‘green bills’, while in the debt market the interest demanded on the 10-year Spanish bond relaxed to 3.660%.
