The Ibex 35 has started the session this Wednesday with a fall of 0.24%, which has led the selective to stand at 7,338 integers at 9:01 a.m., on a festive day in Spain one day after the cut in economic forecasts by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the approval of the Contingency Plan to achieve additional savings in natural gas consumption.
After yielding 0.78% yesterday, the Madrid selective starts the session in ‘red numbers’ clinging to the psychological level of 7,300 points, after the downward path on Wall Street, with falls of more than 1% for the Nasdaq, and in Asia, with a decrease of 0.02% for the Nikkei index.
In the early stages of the session, most of the Ibex 35 shares were trading in the red, with the energy sector playing a special role. The decreases are led by Melia (-3.56%), Endesa (-2.90%), Naturgy Energy (-2.73%), Solaria (-2.56%), Fluidra (-2.12%), Red Electric (-1.88%), Acciona (-1.83%), Acciona Corporation (-1.83%) and Aena (-1.57%).
In ‘green’, the leading role of the construction sector, since IAG (+1.34%), Repsol (+1.08%), Sacyr (+0.65%), ACS (+0, 54%), Ferrovial (+0.52%), Bankinter (+0.49%) and PharmaMar (+0.37%).
The rest of the European stock markets also opened lower with falls of 0.4% for Frankfurt and Milan, 0.25% for Paris and 0.07% in London.
Likewise, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, stood this Wednesday at a price of 94.85 dollars, with an increase of 0.59%, while the Texas stood at 89, 6 dollars, with a rebound of 0.3%.
Finally, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 0.9713 ‘greenbacks’, while the Spanish risk premium stood at 115 basis points, with the interest required on the ten-year bond at 3.474%.
Source: Europa Press
