MADRID, 1 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ibex 35 advanced 0.86% in the half session this Thursday, which led it to stand at 8,435.3 points at twelve noon.
The selective was boosted after the gains registered on Wall Street after Jerome Powell pointed out yesterday that the Federal Reserve (Fed) of the United States will abandon the path of increases of 75 basis points in December
In this way, the president of the Fed offered a signal that the monetary authority will lift the foot of the accelerator with respect to interest rate rises next month, according to his speech at an event organized in Washington.
The Fed is scheduled to hold its last monetary policy meeting on December 13-14. The rise in rates (known as the price of money) was guaranteed, although until now the doubt remained on the magnitude of said rise.
On the other hand, this Thursday it was published that unemployment in the eurozone decreased by one tenth in October compared to the previous month, reaching a rate of 6.5%, which represents the lowest level of unemployment among the Nineteen of the entire Historical series, dating back to April 1998.
In Spain, the Public Treasury has placed 3,492.27 million euros in an auction of government bonds and obligations, in the expected high range, and has done so by remunerating investors with higher interest in two of the three references offered.
In this scenario, the Ibex 35 traded at 8,435.3 points, with most of its values in ‘green’. The biggest increases were presented by Cellnex (3.59%), Grifols (3.3%), Red Eléctrica (2.92%), Colonial (2.82%) and Amadeus (2.03%).
On the other hand, Sabadell (-2.2%), Bankinter (-1.88%), Arcelormittal (-1.51%), CaixaBank (-1.49%), Fluidra (-0.35%) fell , Acerinox (-0.34%), Siemens Gamesa (-0.06%) and PharmaMar (-0.03%).
The rest of the European stock markets also posted gains in the mid-session, 0.07% in London, 0.04% in Paris, 0.56% in Frankfurt and 0.47% in Milan.
Likewise, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, stood at 87.46 dollars, with a rise of 0.56%, while Texas stood at 81.02 dollars, with a rise of 0.58%.
Finally, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0425 ‘greenbacks’, while the Spanish risk premium stood at 100 basis points, with the interest required on the ten-year bond at 2.816%.
