MADRID, 16 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The main indicator of the Spanish Stock Market, the Ibex 35, fell 1.14% at mid-session and was dangerously close to the level of 8,100 points, on a day in which the last 'quadruple witch hour' of the year takes place, a phenomenon which usually causes high volatility in the markets.

Specifically, the selective lost 93.4 points, equivalent to that 1.14%, which stood at 8,125 integers. The rest of the European parks were also trading at mid-session with losses: Paris dropped 1.57%; London, 1.36%; Frankfurt, 1.22%, and Milan, 0.91%.

This Friday the last 'quadruple witch hour' of the year takes place, a phenomenon that usually causes high volatility in the markets, while it has been known that year-on-year inflation in the Eurozone moderated to 10.1% in November.

Thus ends a week marked by rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and the European Central Bank (ECB), which rose 0.5 percentage points in each case, to stand at 4.5% and 2 .5%, respectively.

Back to the Ibex 35, Cellnex Telecom was the most bearish company in the selective at mid-session, dropping 4.59%, followed by Sacyr and Inmobiliaria Colonial, which fell 4.34% and 4.14%, respectively.

CaixaBank, however, managed to revalue 4.24%, followed by Banco Sabadell and Bankinter, which added 3.52% and 2.72%.

In the continuous market, Soltec registered a fall of 6.13%, followed by Grifols, with 4.83%, while Bodegas Riojanas registered a rise of 7.57% and Nueva Expresión Textil of 4.71%.

The barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, was at a price of 79.05 dollars at mid-session, with a decrease of 2.65%, while Texas stood at 74.12 dollars, with a fall of 2.61%.

Finally, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0630 'greenbacks', while the Spanish risk premium stood at 110 basis points, with the interest required on the ten-year bond at 3.294%.