MADRID Jan. 17 () –
The Ibex 35 registered an increase of 0.7% at noon this Friday, reaching 11,923.8 points, on a day marked by the publication of eurozone inflation for the month of December.
The main indicator of the Spanish market has started the day positively and is once again targeting 12,000 integers, a level above which it has not closed since the beginning of last December.
According to market data consulted by Europa Press, the national index provisionally advances 1.7% in the week – conditioned by the publication of the United States CPI last Wednesday and the possible impact on the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve (Fed) -, while at the beginning of the year the accumulated increase is 2.8%.
On a broader level, Banca March experts have commented that today we will have the last session with Biden as president of the United States and that tomorrow the events for the inauguration of Donald Trump will begin, which will reach its peak on Monday with the oath of office. of his new position: “A doubly special day, because it will also be a festive session in the American markets due to Martin Luther King Day,” they added.
Going into the details of the current day, the macroeconomic agenda has revealed that the inflation rate in the euro zone rose in December to 2.4% year-on-year, two tenths above the previous month’s reading, which represents the largest increase of prices since last July, as confirmed by Eurostat.
Without taking into account the impact of energy, the euro zone inflation rate remained stable at 2.7%, while also excluding the effect of fresh food prices, as well as alcohol and tobacco , the core inflation rate also remained at 2.7%.
In Spain, the rise in prices in December accelerated to 2.8% from 2.4% the previous month, thus placing it four tenths above the euro zone average and one tenth above the EU average .
Previously, in the early morning it was known that China’s economy, the second largest in the world, registered an expansion of 5% in the whole of 2024, thus meeting the official goal established by the Government, as reported by the National Office of Statistics (ONE), while in the afternoon industrial production in December will be published in the United States.
In the business field, CaixaBank has informed the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) that it has already executed 61.12% of its share buyback in the ninth week of its program, the maximum amount of which has been set at 500 million euros.
For his part, Adolfo Domínguez has informed the supervisor that he reduced his losses by 40% during the first nine months of his 2024-2025 fiscal year (between March and November 2024), reaching them at 1.6 million euros, at the same time that sales grew by 8.7%, up to 91.1 million euros.
At the same time, Airtificial shares from the capital increase began trading this Friday, while Amadeus distributed a dividend of 0.50 euros per share, 14% more.
Given this situation, in the middle section of the negotiation, the biggest increases within the Ibex 35, which was almost completely dyed green, were recorded by Acciona, which rose 1.8%, followed by Fluidra (+1.75 %), ACS (+1.51%), Solaria (+1.46%) and Aena (+1.43%), while only Merlín appeared on the decline side, which left a 0.02% and Logista (-0.03%).
The main European stock markets also registered considerable advances at midday: Frankfurt added 1.02%; Paris 1.05%; Milan 1.14% and London 1.16%.
At the same time, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, stood at 81.7 dollars, 0.47% more, while Texas rose 0.7%, to 79 .22 dollars.
In the currency market, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0307 ‘greenbacks’, 0.05% more, while in the debt market, the interest required on the 10-year bond was It moderated to 3.15% after subtracting three basis points, with the risk premium with respect to the German bond at 62.8 points.
For its part, the troy ounce of gold fell by 0.3%, to $2,706, while bitcoin appreciated by 2% and was trading above $102,000.
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