MADRID 31 Oct. () –
The Ibex 35 moderated its opening losses at midday thanks to a comeback trend and barely lost 0.07%, reaching 11,705.2 points, in a day marked once again by the publication of business results in Spain.
The main indicator of the Spanish market has started the day putting the level of 11,600 integers at risk, however at midday it has diluted the losses and is balancing on 11,700 points, while, a few hours before the end of October, the Ibex recorded a provisional depreciation of 1.4% for the month.
Before the opening of the national selective, the accounts for the first nine months of this year of, among other companies, BBVA, Banco Sabadell, CaixaBank, Repsol and Fluidra have been released.
Specifically, BBVA has informed the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) that it obtained a net attributable profit of 7,622 million euros until September, which is equivalent to an increase of 27.9% compared to the same period last year. .
For its part, Banco Sabadell achieved a record profit of 1,295 million euros between January and September, while CaixaBank earned 4,248 million, 16.1% more.
For its part, CaixaBank closed the first nine months of the year with a profit of 4,248 million euros, 16.1% more than in the same period last year, it reports in a statement sent to the National Securities Market Commission ( CNMV) this Thursday.
Repsol, in addition, cut its profits by September by 36%, to 1,792 million, at the same time that Fluidra closed the first nine months of the year with a net profit of 123 million euros, 14% more than in the same period of the year. last year.
Under the macroeconomic umbrella, the Policy Council of the Bank of Japan (BoJ) has unanimously decided to maintain the reference interest rate for unsecured overnight loans at around 0.25% due to the need to evaluate the evolution of foreign economies, particularly that of the United States, which holds presidential elections on November 5.
On the European front, it has been published that the interannual inflation rate of the euro zone would have stood at 2% in October, three tenths above the rise in prices observed in September and in line with the stability goal of the European Central Bank (ECB), according to the first estimate of the data published by Eurostat.
Likewise, the eurozone unemployment rate stood at 6.3% in September, unchanged from the previous month and at its lowest since the beginning of the series in 1999, while in the EU as a whole the figure remained unchanged. stable at 5.9%, also its lowest level since records began, according to data published by Eurostat, which indicates Spain as the country with the highest unemployment rate, with 11.2%.
In the afternoon, PCE inflation for September will be published in the United States, one of the reference measures of the Federal Reserve (Fed) when guiding its monetary policy, along with results from large listed companies such as Apple and Amazon.
In the middle section of the negotiation, the greatest increase within the Ibex 35 was recorded by Fluidra, which rose 6.93%, followed by Unicaja (+2.16%), Banco Santander (+1.7%), Redeia (+1.52%), Endesa (+1.32%), CaixaBank (+1.27%), Bankinter (+0.94%).
On the other hand, Repsol stood out on the decline side, losing 2.14%; Inditex, 2.12% (company weighed down by the ‘ex-dividend’ effect) and Indra, 1.98%. For its part, BBVA subtracted 0.1% and Sabadell 1.21%.
The main European stock markets opted for the negative sign at midday: Milan depreciated 0.35%; Frankfurt 0.5%; London 0.74% and Paris 0.9%.
At the same time, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, stood at 72.84 dollars, 0.4% more, while Texas rose 0.54%, to 68 $.97.
In the foreign exchange market, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0865 ‘greenbacks’, 0.08% more, while in the debt market, the interest required on the 10-year bond was quoted unchanged at 3.091%, with the risk premium with respect to the German bond at 69 points.
The troy ounce of gold fell by 0.3%, to $2,780, and bitcoin fell by 0.56% and was trading at $72,250.
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