MADRID, 20 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Ibex 35 has started the session this Tuesday with a decline of 0.12%, so that the Madrid selective has stood at 9,420.7 points, in a day in which the markets will be pending intervention again of the vice president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Luis de Guindos, who yesterday warned that an economic slowdown and more interest rate rises are coming.

Likewise, investors will also be attentive to the statements by Andrea Enria and Elizabeth McCaul, both members of the ECB, who are attending some events in Frankfurt on Tuesday.

In the United States, the Wall Street Stock Exchange returns to activity today, after being closed yesterday for the celebration of Juneteenth (Liberation Day), with investors also attentive to the intervention of the president of the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) of St. Louis, James Bullard.

Likewise, the market is awaiting the data that will be released throughout the week, specifically, inflation will be published on Wednesday in the United Kingdom, while on Thursday the monetary policy decisions of the Bank of England and the Swiss National Bank, while on Friday private activity data for the Eurozone Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) will be released.

In the early stages of the session on Tuesday, the biggest increases within the Ibex 35 were recorded by Logista (0.33%), Mapfre (0.28%), Endesa (0.22%), Iberdrola (0.21 %) and Cellnex Telecom (0.19%), while on the opposite side, with the greatest falls, were Sacyr (-2.57%), Aena (-1.18%), ArcelorMittal (-1.15 %), Colonial (-0.89%) and Grifols, whose shares lost 0.77%.

The main European stock markets also opened the day with a negative sign: 0.48% for Frankfurt, 0.34% for Milan, 0.23% for London and 0.18% for Paris.

In the raw materials market, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, stood at a price of 76.14 dollars, with an increase of almost 0.1%, while Texas traded to $71.34, down 0.24%.

In the foreign exchange market, the value of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0922 ‘greenbacks’, while the Spanish risk premium was around 91.8 points, with the interest required on the ten-year Spanish bond in 3.407%.