The Ibex starts December with a rise of 0.75% and exceeds 8,400 after the gains on Wall Street

MADRID, 1 Dic.

The Ibex starts December with a rise of 0.75% and exceeds 8,400 after the gains on Wall Street

MADRID, 1 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ibex 35 has started the session this Thursday with a rise of 0.75%, which has led the selective to stand at 8,424 integers at 9:01 a.m., after the gains registered on Wall Street after Jerome Powell pointed out yesterday that the Federal Reserve (Fed) of the United States 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.

In this way, after closing November with a rise of 5%, the Madrid index began the session above the psychological level of 8,400 integers, after increases of 2.18% for the Dow Jones, 3.09% for the S

In the early stages of this Thursday's session, most of the stocks were trading higher, led by Grifols (2.68%), Red Eléctrica (2.08%), Indra (0.68%), Telefónica ( 1.12%), Amadeus (0.98%), ArcelorMittal (0.95%) and BBVA (0.66%), while on the other side were Caixabank (-1.04%), Bankinter (- 0.51%) and Sabadell (-0.21%).

The rest of the European stock markets opened higher with increases of 1% for Frankfurt, 0.6% for Paris and 0.3% 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 decrease of 0.18%, while Texas stood at 80 dollars, with a fall of 0.16%.

Finally, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0423 'greenbacks', while the Spanish risk premium stood at 99 basis points, with the interest required on the ten-year bond at 2.874%.

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