MADRID, 18 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ibex 35 has started the session this Tuesday with a slight rise of 0.02%, which has taken the selective to 9,440.35 points, just a few days before the start of the season of business results in Spain.

Specifically, this Thursday and this Friday they will publish their semi-annual Bankinter and Línea Directa accounts, respectively, being the prelude to other large listed companies that will begin to publish their results in the coming days.

Likewise, the markets will remain attentive during this day to the publication of the quarterly results, at an international level, of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis and of the American banks Bank of America and Morgan Stanley.

In the early stages of this session, the biggest increases within the Madrid selective were recorded by Aena (1.23%), Bankinter (0.52%), Unicaja Banco (0.51%), while on the opposite side the The most pronounced decreases were registered by Telefónica (-0.6%), Naturgy (-0.56%), Acciona (-0.54%) and Red Eléctrica (-0.37%).

The main European stock markets opened this Tuesday with a negative sign: 0.23% for Frankfurt, 0.13% for Paris, 0.11% for Milan and 0.09% for London.

At the opening of the stock market, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, fell 0.04%, to $78.47, while Texas stood at $74.08.

In the currency market, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.1254 'green bills', while the Spanish risk premium was around 105.2 basis points, with the interest required on the 10-year bond at 3.468%.