MADRID, 18 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ibex 35 remained below the level of 9,300 points, trading at 9,279.5 points, which implies a drop of 0.20% compared to Tuesday’s close, in a context still marked by the uncertainty of the implications of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Investors have thus digested the comments made yesterday by the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Patrick Harker, who assured that the monetary authority has room to maintain United States interest rates at their current level for the moment.
Likewise, it has been known that China’s GDP expanded 1.3% in the third quarter compared to the period from April to June, when the expansion was 0.5%.
For its part, in Europe today it was published that the interannual inflation rate of the United Kingdom in the month of September was 6.7%, in line with the price increase of the previous month; while the eurozone figure moderated to 4.3% in the ninth month of the year, nine tenths less than in August.
In this context, Acciona Energías Renovables advanced 2.70% in the mid-session, ahead of Repsol (1.60%), Mapfre (0.96%), Aena (0.85%), CaixaBank (0.61 %), and Telefónica (0.60%).
On the other hand, the largest decreases were recorded by ArcelorMittal (-2.40%), IAG (-2.02%), Cellnex (-1.52%), Grifols (-1.34%), Acerinox (-1 .31%) and Fluidra (-1.15%).
Falls have also been recorded in the rest of European places with the exception of Milan, which advanced 0.26%. London fell 0.27%; Paris, 0.12%; and Frankfurt, 0.25%.
Oil has remained on the rise in a geopolitical context marked by conflicts in both Ukraine and Israel. A barrel of Brent rose 2.96%, to $92.57, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) reached $89.35, up 3.10%.
In the debt markets, the yield on the Spanish bond with a 10-year maturity stood at 4.002%, below the 4.004% it registered at the close of Wednesday. In this way, the risk premium against German debt rose three tenths, to 112.5 basis points.
Regarding currencies, the euro depreciated 0.20% against the dollar, reaching 1.0556 dollars for each unit of the community currency.
