MADRID, 16 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -
The Ibex 35 extended its falls to 0.95% in the mid-session this Wednesday, but managed to stay above the 8,100 point barrier, on a day in which geopolitical tensions are once again the protagonists after the incident registered in Poland where two people have died in the border town of Przewodow due to an explosion due to the impact of missiles.
In this scenario, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, has indicated that it is "improbable" that the projectile was fired by Russia, while he has advocated completing the investigation into the event. On its side, NATO has called an emergency meeting of allied ambassadors to examine the incident.
On the other hand, the European Central Bank (ECB) has warned in its report 'Financial Stability Assessment' of November 2022 that the risks to financial stability in the euro area have increased in a context of rising prices energy, high inflation and low economic growth, which makes a technical recession more likely, at the same time that financial conditions have tightened as central banks move to control inflation.
In this scenario, the Ibex 35 was trading at 8,110.3 points at twelve noon, with IAG (-3.95%), Grifols (-2.97%), Indra (-2.63%), Arcelormittal ( -2.57%), Amadeus (-2.35%), Colonial (-2.21%) and Merlin (-2.19%) at the head of the decreases.
In the positive field, Repsol (1.18%), CaixaBank (1.02%), Bankinter (0.49%) and Sacyr (0.47%) stood out.
The rest of the European stock markets also presented a negative behavior, with the exception of London (0.05%). Thus, the decreases were 0.24% in Paris, 0.67% in Frankfurt and 0.4% in Milan.
Likewise, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, stood at 94.34 dollars, with a rise of 0.52%, while Texas stood at 87.1 dollars, with a rise of 0.21%.
Finally, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0418 'greenbacks', while the Spanish risk premium stood at 100 basis points, with the interest required on the ten-year bond at 3.085%.
