The Ibex 35 rises 0.1% at the opening and remains above 11,000 points

June 20 () – The Ibex 35 has started this Thursday’s session with a rise of 0.10%, which has led the selective to stand at 11,067.6 integers at 9:00 a.m., in a day in which Wall Street returns to activity after being closed yesterday for the Liberation Day holiday.

In addition, investors will be awaiting the interest rate decision of the Bank of England (BoE), the Central Bank of Norway and the Central Bank of Switzerland, as well as the Eurogroup meeting.

In the Spanish business field, the board of directors of Applus has shown its support for the public acquisition offer (OPA) for the exclusion of shares that its already majority shareholder, the I Squared and TDR funds, intends to carry out through its company joint venture Amber, at a price of 12.78 euros per share, the same amount that allowed these funds to achieve a controlling stake in Applus of 70.65% in its initial takeover bid.

On the other hand, the Asturian energy company Duro Felguera has informed the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) of the suspension of the Djelfa contract (Algeria) for reasons “not attributable” to the company, while at the same time setting the composition of its board of directors in 8 members.

In addition, Telefónica will pay this Thursday the first tranche of the company’s dividend from freely available reserves, which will amount to 0.15 euros gross per share.

Acciona, for its part, is holding its ordinary general meeting of shareholders today, in which it will vote on the re-election of its president, José Manuel Entrecanales, as executive director, as well as the distribution of a dividend of 266 million euros.

In this context, the Ibex 35 has opened with Grifols leading the increases (+1.75%), followed by Banco Sabadell (+0.98%), Acciona (+0.72%) and Fluidra (+0.55% ), while the ‘red lanterns’ were Aena (-0.32%), Acciona Energía (-0.25%), IAG (-0.25%) and Telefónica (-0.23%).

In the rest of Europe, the main indices have started the session with mixed trends. Specifically, the London Stock Exchange was trading flat (-0.01%), and Frankfurt, Paris and Milan rose 0.28%, 0.11%, and 0.01%, respectively.

The price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, rose 0.09% at the opening of the European markets, to 85.15 dollars, while Texas stood at 80.56 dollars. 0.1% less.

In the foreign exchange market, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0736 ‘greenbacks’, while in the debt market the interest required on the 10-year Spanish bond remained around 3.360%.