The Ibex 35 index rises 0.1% at the open and remains above 11,000 points.
He Capricorn 35 started the session this Thursday with growth 0.10%, which led to the selective being placed in 11,067.6 integers at 9:00 a.m., the day Wall Street returns to activity after closing yesterday for the Emancipation Day holiday.
In addition, investors will be awaiting interest rate decisions from the Bank of England (BoE), the Norwegian Central Bank and the Swiss Central Bank, as well as the Eurogroup meeting.
In the Spanish business scene, the board of directors of Applus has shown its support for a public acquisition proposal (OPA) to exclude the shares that its already majority shareholder, the I Squared and TDR funds, intends to carry out through a joint venture of its company. Amberat a price of €12.78 per share, allowing these funds to obtain a controlling stake of 70.65% in Applus in the initial takeover bid.
On the other hand, the Asturian energy company Duro Felguera informed the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) of the suspension of the Djelfa (Algeria) contract for reasons “outside the control of the company”, while defining the composition of the Board of Directors with 8 people.
Except, telephone will pay this Thursday the first tranche of the company’s dividends from freely available reserves, which will amount to 0.15 euros gross per title.
Acciona, for its part, is holding its next general meeting of shareholders today, at which it will vote on the re-election of its president, José Manuel Entrecanales, as chief executive, as well as on the distribution of dividends 266 million euros.
In this context, Ibex 35 opened with Grifols leads in growth (+1.75%), They are followed by Banco Sabadell (+0.98%), Acciona (+0.72%) and Fluidra (+0.55%), while the red lanterns are Aena (-0.32%), Acciona Energía (-0 .25%), IAG (-0.25). %) and Telefónica (-0.23%).
In the rest of Europe, the major indices started the session with mixed dynamics. In particular, the London Stock Exchange traded flat (-0.01%), while Frankfurt, Paris and Milan rose 0.28%, 0.11% and 0.01% respectively.
The price of a barrel of quality Brent oilThe Old Continent benchmark rose 0.09% as European markets opened to $85.15, while Texas stood at $80.56, down 0.1%.
On the foreign exchange marketthe price of the euro against the dollar was US$1.0736, while in the debt market the required interest rate on 10-year Spanish bonds remained around 3.360%.