MADRID, 16 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ibex 35 has started the session this Friday with a fall of 0.38%, which has led the selective to stand at 8,187 integers at 9:01 a.m., on a day in which the last 'quadruple witch hour' takes place ' of the year, a phenomenon that usually causes high volatility in the markets.

Thus, this Friday the options and futures on indices and shares expire in both Europe and the United States, in a week marked by the meetings of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the United States Federal Reserve (Fed).

In this way, after closing yesterday with a fall of 1.7%, the Madrid selective began the session clinging to the psychological level of 8,100 integers, after Wall Street closed in red, with falls of 2.25% for the Dow Jones, 2.49% for the S

In the early stages of the session, the biggest falls were recorded by Inditex (-1.87%), Cellnex Telecom (-1.57%), Grifols (-1.47%), Telefónica (-1.39%) , Ferrovial (-1.21%) and Red Eléctrica (-1.16%), while on the opposite side were Caixabank (0.48%), Indra (0.44%), Merlin Properties (0.38 %) and Endesa (0.34%).

The rest of the European stock markets opened with increases of 0.1% for Frankfurt and gains of 0.3% for Paris and 0.2% for London.

Likewise, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, stood at a price of 80 dollars, with a decrease of 0.47%, while Texas stood at 75 dollars, with a fall 0.6%.

Lastly, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0637 'greenbacks', while the Spanish risk premium stood at 106 basis points, with the interest required on the ten-year bond at 3.256%.