The Ibex opens with a fall of 0.25% and loses 8,400 awaiting the employment report in the US.

MADRID, 2 Dic.

The Ibex opens with a fall of 0.25% and loses 8,400 awaiting the employment report in the US.

MADRID, 2 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ibex 35 has started the session this Friday with a fall of 0.25%, which has led the selective to stand at 8,387 integers at 9:01 a.m., awaiting the employment report in the United States and in one day in which the unemployment data in Spain have also been known.

Specifically, the number of unemployed registered in the offices of the public employment services (formerly Inem) fell by 33,512 unemployed in November in relation to the previous month (-1.1%), its second largest decline this month within the historical series after the one experienced in 2021 (-74,381 unemployed).

For its part, Social Security lost an average of 155 contributors in November, mainly due to the sharp drop in employment in the hospitality industry, which fell by more than 100,000 people compared to the previous month.

In this way, after closing yesterday with a rise of 0.53% after Jerome Powell pointed out that the Federal Reserve (Fed) of the United States will abandon the path of increases of 75 basic points in December, the Madrid selective began the session for below the psychological level of 8,400 integers.

In the early stages of the session this Friday, the biggest falls were recorded by Caixabank (-1.7%), Repsol (-1.28%), Telefónica (-1.18%), Enagás (-1.08 %), Bankinter (-0.9%) and Sabadell (-0.9%), while on the opposite side were Ferrovial (0.27%), Amadeus (0.12%) and Cellnex Telecom (0, 06%).

The rest of the European stock markets opened lower with falls of 0.2% for Frankfurt, 0.3% for Paris and 0.4% for London.

Likewise, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, stood at a price of 86 dollars, with a rise of 0.13%, while Texas stood at 81 dollars, with a fall of 0.11%.

Finally, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0516 'greenbacks', while the Spanish risk premium stood at 99 basis points, with the interest required on the ten-year bond at 2.787%.

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