The Ibex advances 0.53% and closes above 8,400 points thanks to the Fed

MADRID, 1 Dic.

The Ibex advances 0.53% and closes above 8,400 points thanks to the Fed

MADRID, 1 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ibex 35 has risen 0.53% at the close of the session this Thursday, which has led it to retake the 8,407.9 integers, after Jerome Powell pointed out yesterday that the Federal Reserve (Fed) of the United States it will abandon the path of increases of 75 basis points in December.

In this way, the president of the Fed offered a signal that the monetary authority will lift the foot of the accelerator with respect to interest rate rises next month, according to his speech at an event organized in Washington.

The Fed is scheduled to hold its last monetary policy meeting on December 13-14. The rise in rates (known as the price of money) was guaranteed, although until now the doubt remained on the magnitude of said rise.

On the other hand, this Thursday it was published that unemployment in the eurozone decreased by one tenth in October compared to the previous month, reaching a rate of 6.5%, which represents the lowest level of unemployment among the Nineteen of the entire Historical series, dating back to April 1998.

In Spain, the Public Treasury has placed 3,492.27 million euros in an auction of government bonds and obligations, in the expected high range, and has done so by remunerating investors with higher interest in two of the three references offered.

In this scenario, the largest increases in the Ibex 35 have been recorded by Cellnex (5.00%), Grifols (3.89%), Red Eléctrica (2.98%), Indra (2.81%), Ferrovial (1 88%), Colonial (1.87%) and Rovi (1.76%).

On the opposite side were CaixaBank (-4.01%), Banco Sabadell (-3.78%), Fluidra (-3.43%), Bankinter (-3.21%), ArcelorMittal (-1.51 %), Banco Santander (-1.19%), Acerinox (-0.94%) and BBVA (-0.82%).

The rest of the European stock markets have also closed positively, with an increase of 0.23% in Paris, 0.65% in Frankfurt and 0.31% in Milan. Only London ended the day with a fall of 0.19%.

Likewise, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, stood at 88.29 dollars, with a rise of 1.49%, while Texas reached 82.38 dollars, with a rise of 2.28%.

Finally, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0505 'greenbacks', while the Spanish risk premium stood at 100 basis points, with the interest required on the ten-year bond at 2.798%.

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