MADRID, 5 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ibex 35 started this Thursday’s session with a rise of 0.56%, which has taken the index to 9,154.26 points, in a day in which investors will be awaiting the interventions of several members of the Central Bank European (ECB).
Specifically, the markets will remain attentive to the statements of the organization’s vice president, Luis de Guindos, and the Irish representative on the ECB board and chief economist of the institution, Philip R. Lane, in Frankfurt (Germany).
Also in terms of monetary policy, investors will attend the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the United States Federal Reserve (Fed), since several of its members will appear during this day.
In Spain, the Public Treasury expects to place between 5.5 billion and 6.5 billion euros this Thursday in a new issue of long-term debt, in which it will auction ‘green bonds’.
In the macroeconomic field, Germany’s trade balance will be published, as well as France’s industrial production, while in the United States both the trade balance and new requests for unemployment benefits will be published.
At the opening of the Madrid trading floor, the National Institute of Statistics (INE) published the General Industrial Production Index (IPI), which fell 3.6% year-on-year last August, a rate 1.5 points lower than that of July and its biggest decline since April, when it plummeted 4.2%.
In the early stages of this session, the biggest increases within the Ibex 35 were recorded by Colonial (2.05%), Grifols (1.66%) and Sacyr (1.43%), while on the opposite side the ‘ The most notable red lanterns were Indra (-0.08%) and ACS (-0.03%).
The main European stock markets also opened this Thursday with a positive sign: 0.29% for Milan, 0.14% for Paris, 0.08% for London and 0.06% for Frankfurt.
At the opening of the stock market, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, rose 0.71%, to 86.42 dollars, while Texas stood at 84.75 dollars, a 0.63% more.
In the currency market, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0507 ‘greenbacks’, while the Spanish risk premium was around 109.2 basis points, with the interest required on the 10-year bond at 4.031%.
