MADRID, 21 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ibex 35 traded with a rise of 0.11% towards mid-session, standing at 9,450.2 points after 12:00 noon, on a day in which the markets will be awaiting the intervention of the president of the Federal Reserve of States States (Fed), Jerome Powell, before the Financial Services Committee of the House of Representatives of Congress.

Investors will also be attentive today to the statements by the German representative on the board of the European Central Bank (ECB), Isabel Schnabel, who already defended on Monday the need to continue raising interest rates until there is convincing evidence that the rate Headline inflation returns to the 2% target in a sustained and timely manner.

In this context, the largest rises within the selective at mid-session were registered by CaixaBank (2.24%), Bankinter (1.45%), Banco Sabadell (1.28%), BBVA (1.1%) and Banco Santander (1%), while on the opposite side were Meliá (-1.5%), Naturgy (-1.12%), Repsol (-1.05%) and Merlin Properties (-0.96%). .

The positive data was similar for the rest of the European markets, with Milan rising 0.45%; Frankfurt, 0.15% and London, 0.05%, while Paris dropped 0.05%.

In the raw materials market, a barrel of Brent rose 0.05%, to settle at 75.94 dollars, while the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) reached 71.25 dollars, 0.08% more.

The yield of the Spanish bond with a maturity of 10 years stood at 3.343% towards the mid-session this Wednesday, while the risk premium rose almost nine tenths, up to 92.6 basis points.

In the foreign exchange market, the euro traded almost flat (-0.01%) against the dollar, reaching 1.0917 'green tickets' for each unit of the community currency.