MADRID, 2 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -
The Ibex 35 concluded the first session of October with a fall of 1.16% weighed down by energy values and barely held on to the level of 9,300 points - specifically it closed at 9,319 points - despite having risen until midday and have touched the level of 9,500 integers.
The Spanish market opened with slight advances in a week in which it will not have the reference of the Chinese stock markets, which will remain closed for holidays, although the World Bank has cut the growth forecast for the giant's economy by four tenths Asia by 2024, reaching 4.4%.
Despite the positive tone of the morning, the Spanish selective has changed direction and has strongly penetrated the losses, pressured by energy stocks, such as Iberdrola - one of the heavyweights of the index -, and affected by the bearish opening of Wall Street , whose main indicator, the Dow Jones, was down 0.5% at closing time in Europe.
This Monday it was learned that Spain's manufacturing PMI continued in September, for the sixth consecutive month, in contractionary territory, marking less than 50 points, although it improved to 47.7 points, compared to 46.5 points in August.
In the eurozone as a whole, the activity of the manufacturing sector in the eurozone contracted again for the fifteenth consecutive month when the PMI index stood at 43.4 points, one tenth less than in August.
Regarding the European labor market, the unemployment rate in the eurozone stood at 6.4% last August, one tenth less and its lowest level in the entire series, while in the European Union as a whole it also fell one tenth and stood at the historical low of 5.9%, according to data published by Eurostat.
In this context, the biggest losses on the Ibex 35 have been for Solaria (-3.82%), Endesa (-3.55%), Acciona (-3.44%), Fluidra (-3.41%) and Iberdrola (-3.11%).
Other important values in the selective have closed with declines: Repsol has dropped 1.45%; Banco Santander 1.27% and Telefónica 1.16%.
In contrast, only six companies have closed with advances: IAG has added 0.06%; Banco Sabadell 0.14%; Inditex 0.34%; Colonial 0.84% and Unicaja 1.28%.
Losses of around 1% have ended up being imposed throughout Europe: Frankfurt has lost 0.91%; Paris 0.94%; London 1.28% and Milan 1.39%.
In the raw materials market, a barrel of Brent stood at $91.12, 1.17% less; while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) fell 1.5%, to $89.43.
Regarding debt, the yield of the Spanish bond with a 10-year maturity in the secondary debt markets has closed at 3.99% after adding six basis points, while the risk premium (the differential with the German bond) It has reached 107 points.
In the foreign exchange market, the euro depreciated 0.75% against the dollar, until trading with an exchange rate of 1.0494 dollars for each unit of the community currency, a minimum since the first week of the year.
