The Ibex 35 seeks 11,100 integers in the mid-session of Holy Thursday, with ACS down (-3.45%)

MADRID, 28 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ibex 35 was trading in the mid-session of this Holy Thursday, the start of Holy Week, with a decrease of 0.15%, which brought it to 11,094.4 integers, in a day of transition for the Stock market closing this Friday, a national holiday in Spain.

On the business front, the Texas Transportation Commission (USA) will force a renegotiation of the concession contract for the SH-288 toll highway, currently owned by the ACS group and Abertis, given the threat of a termination of the agreement that It went into operation in November 2020.

Specifically, the Commission plans to meet this Thursday, March 28, to authorize the creation of a transportation corporation and the possible early termination of the concession contract for the Texas highway, of which ACS purchased the remaining 21.62% on last April 1, thus holding 100% of the capital invested in the project.

At the beginning of this Wednesday's session it was known that the United Kingdom economy registered a fall of 0.3% in the fourth quarter of 2023, after the contraction of one tenth of the second largest European economy in the third quarter of the year past, so it entered a technical recession at the end of the year, accumulating two consecutive quarters of contraction.

In the macroeconomic field, this Thursday the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the United States will also be released, where the initial and continuing weekly unemployment claims will also be revealed.

Thus, in the mid-session, the biggest increases within the Ibex 35 were recorded by IAG (2.05%), BBVA (1.28%), Banco Santander (1.19%), Grifols (1.18%) and Indra (1.11%).

On the other hand, the biggest falls were those of CaixaBank (-7.85%), weighed down by the ex-dividend effect, ACS (-3.45%), Acciona (-2.18%), Ferrovial (-1 .62%) and Acciona Energía (-1.57%).

The main European stock markets were trading positively at midday, with increases of 0.42% in Paris, 0.31% in London, 0.15% in Frankfurt, and 0.13% in Milan.

In the raw materials market, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, rose 1.08%, to $86.33, while that of Texas stood at $82.43. , 1.33% more.

In the foreign exchange market, the price of the euro against the dollar advanced to 1.0791 'greenbacks', while in the debt market the interest required on the 10-year Spanish bond climbed to 3.175%