The Ibex 35 advances almost 0.5% at the close of the session and exceeds the level of 8,900 integers

Jan. 18 () –

The Ibex 35 has closed the session this Wednesday with an advance of 0.48%, which has led it to stand at 8,933.3 integers, on a day in which it has been known that Spain said goodbye to 2022 as the country of the euro zone with the lowest inflation.

Specifically, Spain registered an interannual increase in prices in December of 5.5%, 1.2 points below the data for November. For its part, the data for the euro area fell by nine tenths, to 9.2%, while in the Twenty-seven as a whole inflation was 10.4% in the last month of the year, seven tenths less.

In the United Kingdom, the year-on-year inflation rate stood at 10.5% last December, compared with the 10.7% registered in November, representing the second consecutive decline.

For its part, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) has decided today to keep its monetary and stimulus policy unchanged, after having revised downward its growth forecasts for the coming years, despite the consensus expectations of analysts that They pointed to new turn signals in the position of the Japanese issuing institute.

Meliá (+4.59%), IAG (+3.48%), CaixaBank (+1.98%), Aena (+1.92%), Repsol (+1.88%), Cellnex (+1, 87%), Enagás (+1.47%) and Grifols (+1.19%) have registered the highest increases in the selective, while Merlin Properties (-3.35%), Colonial (-2.13%), Telefónica (-1.57%), Endesa (-1.33%), Iberdrola (-0.92%) and Unicaja Banco (-0.83%) are the values ​​that have fallen the most at the end of the day.

Regarding the rest of the European markets, London has lost 0.26% in today’s session and Frankfurt, 0.03%, while Paris has risen a slight 0.9% and Milan, 0.27%.

Regarding raw materials, a barrel of Brent observed a rise of 1.32%, up to 87.06 dollars, while its US counterpart, West Texas Intermediate, stood at 81.47 dollars, a 1.60 % more.

In the currency market, the cross of the euro against the dollar has rebounded so far this session, reaching 1.0817 dollars for each euro, compared to 1.0831 at the opening. On the other hand, in the debt market, the Spanish risk premium stood at 96.4 basis points, with the interest required on the ten-year bond at 2.955%.