MADRID, 4 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ibex 35 maintained the rebound of 0.33% in the mid-session this Friday, reaching 9,336.6 points, in a day that will revolve around the publication of the July employment report in the United States, one of the keys to the Federal Reserve (Fed) when evaluating its monetary policy.
After closing yesterday with a fall of 0.23%, chaining five sessions down, its worst streak since the start of December 2022, the Madrid selective maintained the progress of the opening in the middle section of the negotiation, although in some moments it has threatened to lose the level of 9,300 integers, while the parquet is digesting the latest business results of the season.
Within the ‘macro’ agenda for Europe this Friday, it has been revealed that Spanish industrial production for June has returned to negative rates after falling 1.4% in the interannual rate, which is 1.4 points lower than that of May, as reported by the National Statistics Institute (INE); while factory orders for the same month in Germany increased by 7% in the monthly rate when the market expected a decline.
For their part, retail sales in the euro area fell by 0.3% in June in the monthly rate and moderated their decline to 1.4% in the interannual rate.
In this context, at noon the biggest increases within the Ibex 35 were recorded by Fluidra (2.31%); Drive (1.63%); Bankinter (1.51%); IAG (1.46%); Repsol (1.39%); Mapfre (1.12%); Unicaja (1.08%); Rovi (0.98%) and BBVA (0.96%), while on the loss side were Indra (-1.48%); Cellnex (-1.44%); Amadeus (-0.6%) and Colonial (-0.53%).
Specifically, Indra has informed the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) first thing in the morning that it has reached an agreement with Bain Capital Private Equity for the entry into the share capital of the Basque aircraft engine company ITP Aero through the acquisition of an indirect 9.5% stake for an amount of 175 million euros, which will be carried out in the coming weeks.
The main European markets also rebounded slightly this Friday with a positive sign: Frankfurt added 0.05%; London 0.07%; Milan 0.1% and Paris 0.51%.
In the middle section of the session, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, increased by 0.76%, to $85.79, while Texas stood at $82.2, 0.66% more.
In the foreign exchange market, the price of the euro against the ‘green ticket’ stood at 1.0942 dollars, while the interest on the long-term Spanish debt stood at 3.661% after adding two basis points, with the risk premium (the differential with the German bond) at 102.4 points.
