MADRID, 19 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ibex 35 has started the session this Monday with a rise of 0.11%, which has led the selective to stand at 8,121 integers at 9:01 a.m., in a week in which investors will be awaiting the decision to Bank of Japan (BoJ) rates and US housing and mortgage market publications.
To this is added the final revision of the GDP for the third quarter of the United States, which will be published this Thursday, and the Ifo index of business confidence in Germany, which will be released this Monday.
On the other hand, the energy ministers of the European Union are meeting this Monday to agree on a cap on the price of gas purchases after the ultimatum that European leaders gave them last Thursday in order to have an intervention mechanism in 2023 to avoid excessive price spikes in the European market.
In this way, after falling 2.1% last week, the Madrid selective began the session clinging to the psychological level of 8,100 integers, after Wall Street closed in the red, with falls of 0.85% for the Dow Jones, 1.11% for the S
In the early stages of the session, the biggest increases were recorded by Repsol (1.61%), Sacyr (0.97%), Acerinox (0.9%), Naturgy Energy (0.83%), Inditex (0 .7%) and ArcelorMittal (0.48%), while on the opposite side were Colonial (-0.64%), Red Eléctrica (-0.15%), Grifols (-0.08%) and Amadeus (-0.02%).
The rest of the European stock markets opened with increases of 0.4% for Frankfurt, 0.7% for Paris and 0.3% for London.
Likewise, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, stood at a price of 79 dollars, with a rise of 0.05%, while Texas stood at 74 dollars, with a rise of 0.09%.
Finally, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0632 ‘greenbacks’, while the Spanish risk premium stood at 107 basis points, with the interest required on the ten-year bond at 3.251%.
