The Ibex 35 loses 7,800 points after falling 1.24% in the session

Sep. 22 () –

The Ibex 35 has lost the level of 7,800 points by registering a fall of 1.24% in the session this Thursday, marked by the decisions of the central banks.

The Federal Reserve (Fed) of the United States decided last night to unanimously approve a third consecutive rise in the country’s interest rates of 75 basis points, to place them in a target range of between 3% and 3.25%.

This represents the highest price of money recorded by the country since January 2008, a few months before the crisis of that year was triggered with the bankruptcies of Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers.

After the Fed, the Bank of Japan decided this Thursday to keep the country’s interest rates at -0.1%, the same rate it has been maintaining since January 2016, when it entered negative territory for the first time in its history. , thus distancing itself from the rest of the large central banks.

For its part, the central bank of Switzerland has abandoned negative rates after a rise of 75 basis points, to place the reference rate at 0.5%, while the Bank of England raises rates 50 basis points, to 2, 25%, in line with estimates.

Bankinter analysts point out that this Thursday has been a session of widespread falls in the stock markets, with a leading indicator of economic activity in the United States that “disappoints” and a “weak” eurozone consumer confidence index.

In this scenario, the Ibex 35 has dropped 1.24%, to 7,774.7 points. The biggest falls were presented by Solaria (-8.6%), Colonial (-6.2%), Fluidra (-5.7%), Merlin (-5.58%), Grifols (-5.56%) and Amadeus (-5.25%).

On the contrary, only Sabadell (+4.99%), Bankinter (+3.09%), CaixaBank (+1.39%), Repsol (+1.01%), Santander (+0.81%) and Enagás (+0.38%).

The rest of the European stock markets have also closed the session in negative, with falls of 1.08% in London, 1.87% in Paris, 1.84% in Frankfurt and 1.07% in Milan.

On the other hand, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, stood at a price of 90.62 dollars, with an increase of 0.95%, while Texas stood at 83, 81 dollars, after rising 1.05%.

Finally, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 0.9836 ‘greenbacks’, while the Spanish risk premium stood at 114 basis points, with the interest required on the ten-year bond at 3.076%.