Ibex 35 opens slightly higher and remains at 9900 points.

At the beginning of the trading session EPA for all of 2023, a period during which unemployment fell by 193,400, down 6.4% from 2022, and employment grew by 783,000 jobs (+3.8%), ending the year above 21 million employed and below 3 millions of unemployed.

On a business level, the results of Volvo, American Express and Carterpillar, among others, will be announced today.

In Spain, the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) decided to lift the suspension of Ezentis from 8:30 am on Monday, January 29, after more than a year of paralysis.

In the early stages of Friday’s session greater increase in Ibex 35 They were gained by Repsol (+0.76%), Acciona Energía (+0.75%), Redeia (+0.47%), Acciona (+0.37%) and Unicaja Banco (+0.35%), and at the other extreme were Bankinter (-0.35%), Rovi (-0.31%), Cellnex (-0.28%), Banco Sabadell (-0.26%) and Inditex (-0.2%).

European bags They woke up to mixed trends: Frankfurt fell 0.2%, while Paris, London and Milan rose 1.39%, 0.83% and 0.21% respectively.

At the opening stock market, The price of a barrel of Brent crude, the benchmark for the Old Continent, fell 0.56% to $81.97, while in Texas it was $76.75, down 0.79%.

In the foreign exchange market, the price of the euro against the dollar rose to US$1.0827, and in the debt market, the required interest rate on 10-year Spanish bonds rose to 3.166%.