The Ibex 35 advanced 0.86% in the half session this Thursday, which led it to stand at 8,435.3 points at twelve noon. The selective was boosted after the gains registered on Wall Street after Jerome Powell pointed out yesterday that the Federal Reserve (Fed) of the United States will abandon the path of increases of 75 basic points in December In this way, the president of the Fed offered a a sign that the monetary authority will lift the foot of the accelerator with respect to interest rate rises next month, according to his speech at an event organized in Washington.
In this scenario, the Ibex 35 traded at 8,435.3 points, with most of its values in ‘green’. The largest increases were presented by Cellnex (+3.59%), Grifols (+3.3%), Red Eléctrica (+2.92%), Colonial (+2.82%) and Amadeus (+2.03%). On the contrary, Sabadell (-2.2%), Bankinter (-1.88%), Arcelormittal (-1.51%), CaixaBank (-1.49%), Fluidra (-0.35%) presented falls., Acerinox (-0.34%), Siemens Gamesa (-0.06%) and PharmaMar (-0.03%).
The rest of the European stock markets also recorded gains in the mid-session, 0.07% in London, 0.04% in Paris, 0.56% in Frankfurt and 0.47% in Milan.
Likewise, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, stood at 87.46 dollars, with a rise of 0.56%, while Texas stood at 81.02 dollars, with a rise of 0.58%.
Finally, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0425 ‘greenbacks’, while the Spanish risk premium stood at 100 basis points, with the interest required on the ten-year bond at 2.816%.