MADRID, 20 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ibex 35 has started the session this Thursday with a rise of 0.13%, which has led the Madrid selective to 9,463.87 points at the start of the season for business results in Spain.
Specifically, this Thursday the semi-annual accounts of Bankinter were published before the opening of the Madrid selective, which registered a net profit of 417.9 million euros in the first six months of the year, which is equivalent to an increase of 54% compared to the same period of 2022, as the bank informed the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) first thing in the morning.
Global Dominion, for its part, will announce its results for the first half of the year as a whole at market close, while Línea Directa will reveal them this Friday, being the prelude to other large listed companies that will begin to publish their results next week.
Also, during this day, the Public Treasury will return to the markets with an auction of State bonds and obligations, with which it will close the issues for the month of July and in which it expects to place between 5,500 million and 6,500 million euros, held a week before the next meeting of the European Central Bank (ECB), from which a new rate hike is expected.
Internationally, this Thursday the accounts of the American multinational Johnson will be published
In the early stages of this session, the biggest increases within the Madrid selective were recorded by Naturgy (1.12%), ArcelorMittal (1.05%), Endesa (0.75%) and Merlin Properties (0.66%), while on the other side the steepest declines were recorded by Bankinter (-2.77%), after presenting their accounts, and Grifols (-0.77%).
The main European stock markets opened this Thursday with a mixed sign: London rose 0.24%, while Paris, Frankfurt and Milan lost 0.26%, 0.21% and 0.17%, respectively.
At the opening of the stock market, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, fell 0.04%, to 79.43 dollars, while Texas stood at 75.27 dollars, 0.03% less.
In the currency market, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.1214 ‘green bills’, while the Spanish risk premium was around 103.3 basis points, with the interest required on the 10-year bond at 3.424%.
