MADRID, 16 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) -
The Ibex 35 began this Tuesday's session with a drop of slightly more than 1%, which has led the selective to lose the level of 10,600 points, after the poor results recorded yesterday on Wall Street due to fear of the response that will give Israel to the Iranian attack this weekend.
Specifically, the Madrid index rose at 10,575 points, pending the tensions in the Middle East and the publication of various macro data, such as the trade balance of the euro zone, China's GDP, German investment confidence and permits. construction in the United States.
In the business field, results will continue to be released this Tuesday in the United States, including those of Morgan Stanley and Bank of America.
Spain, which is holding a Treasury auction today to raise up to 2.5 billion euros, will kick off the results of the Ibex 35 companies this Thursday with the publication of Bankinter's accounts for the first quarter of the year.
In the early stages of the session, the biggest falls within the Ibex 35 were recorded by the steel companies Acerinox and ArcelorMittal, which lost 7% and almost 5%, respectively.
Telefónica, for its part, lost 0.6%, to 3.89 euros per share, after learning yesterday, after the market closed, that SEPI already had more than 5% of its capital, becoming the first shareholder of the operator.
On the promotion side, Naturgy stood out, which soared 3.2%, to 21.48 euros per share, after publishing in the press that Criteria is finalizing an agreement with an Arab group to launch a public acquisition offer (OPA) on the Spanish energy company.
Dragged by Wall Street, the main European stock markets also opened negatively, all with falls of more than 1%, the most pronounced being that of Paris (-1.6%). London and Milan woke up with a decline of 1.3% and Frankfurt fell 1.2%.
At the beginning of the stock market session, the price of a barrel of Brent, the reference oil for Europe, rose 0.3%, to $90.36, while the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil, a reference for the United States United States, also advanced 0.3%, to $85.67.
In the foreign exchange market, the price of the euro against the dollar fell to 1.0612 'greenbacks', while in the debt market the interest required on the 10-year Spanish bond climbed to 3.284%.
