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The Ibex 35 rises 0.28% at the opening and maintains 9,100 points, pending the United States

The Ibex 35 rises 0.28% at the opening and maintains 9,100 points, pending the United States

May 26. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The Ibex 35 has started the session this Friday with a rise of 0.28%, which has led the selective to stand at 9,141.9 points, on a day in which investors will continue to await negotiations on the ceiling of debt in the United States and the tensions between this country and China.

After closing yesterday with a decrease of 0.5%, to stand at 9,116.1 points, the Madrid selective started today’s session consolidating the psychological level of 9,100 integers and had breakfast with the announcement by JPMorgan Chase to give up around a thousand workers of the former First Republic Bank, an entity that had to be intervened at the end of April by the US authorities and whose assets were acquired on May 1st by the largest bank in the United States.

The trading day will also be marked by speeches by the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), Andrea Enria, in Trento (Italy), and by the ECB’s Chief Economist, Philip Lane, in Dubrovnik (Croatia).

In the early stages of this Friday’s session, the biggest increases within the Ibex 35 were registered by Repsol (+0.58%), Acerinox (+0.55%), Santander (+0.48%) and Enagás ( +0.46%), while on the opposite side were Fluidra (-0.68%), Iberdrola (-0.53%), Cellnex (-0.3%), Logista (-0.25%) and Indra, whose shares lost 0.13% at the opening.

The main European markets also opened this Friday with a positive sign: 0.45% for Milan, 0.36% for London, 0.33% for Frankfurt and 0.17% for Paris.

In the raw materials market, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, stood at a price of 76.35 dollars, with a rise of 0.12%, while Texas was trading at 72 .03 dollars, with an increase of 0.28%.

At the opening of the European Stock Markets, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0728 ‘green tickets’, while, in the debt market, the interest demanded on the ten-year Spanish bond stood at 3.590% .

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