The Ibex 35 index fell 0.37% at the opening and held 9,900 points due to the ECB meeting.
He Capricorn 35 started this Thursday’s session with a fall of 0.37%, to reach 9937.1 points in anticipation of the meeting of the European Central Bank (ECB), from which investors expect a new pause in interest rates – they will remain at 4.5% – and, above all, clues about when the reduction will occur.
At the business level, Bankinterfrom which the final season in Spain startedachieved its highest ever recurring profit of €845 million in 2023, up 51% on its €560 million in 2022 and despite the impact of the new financial sector tax, which for the bank amounted to €77 million .
In the early stages of the session this Thursday, the largest gains within the Ibex 35 index were recorded by Redeia (+0.47%), Iberdrola (+0.27%), Grifols (+0.25%), Indra (+0.25 %) and Repsol (+0.19%), while at the other end were Bankinter (-5.10%), CaixaBank (-2.72%), Banco Sabadell (-1.47%), Banco Santander (-0 .93%) and Unicaja Banco (-0.85%).
European stock markets also woke up in the red. Milan fell 0.94%; Frankfurt, 0.25%; Paris – 0.18% and London – 0.16%.
At the opening stock marketThe price of a barrel of Brent crude, the benchmark for the Old Continent, rose 0.65% to $80.56, while in Texas it was $75.64, up 0.73%.
In the foreign exchange market, the price of the euro against the dollar rose to US$1.0890, and in the debt market, the required interest rate on 10-year Spanish bonds rose to 3.263%.