The Ibex advances 0.1% and consolidates at 9,600 points

MADRID, 15 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ibex 35 closed with a slight rise of 0.18%, which brought it to 9,640.7 integers, reaching its highest level since July 28.

This Wednesday's session has served to digest the inflation data for the month of October in the United States, which stood at 3.2% in the interannual rate, five tenths less than the previous month. The underlying data stood at 4%, one tenth less.

Optimism due to this inflation data, better than expected, has not been exclusive to Europe, but Wall Street closed Tuesday's session in green, and continues today with increases of 0.24% in the Dow Jones, from 0, 41% in the S

In today's session it was learned that inflation in the United Kingdom stood at 4.6% last October, compared to the increase in prices of 6.7% in the previous month, which represents the lowest reading of the data since October 2021.

Optimism has also spread to China, whose economy this Wednesday offered new signs of greater resilience than estimated, after readings of industrial activity and retail trade for the month of October exceeded market consensus expectations. according to data published by the National Statistics Office of the Asian country.

In contrast, the Cabinet Office of the Government of Japan has indicated that the country's gross domestic product (GDP) registered a contraction of 0.5% in the third quarter of the year compared to the previous three months, when the economy grew by 1 .1%, according to data published by the Cabinet Office of the Japanese Government, which has been well below the 0.1% drop anticipated by the market consensus.

In the business field, this Wednesday Gubel, a company controlled by businesswoman Helena Revoredo, majority shareholder and president of Prosegur, announced the launch of a voluntary public takeover bid (OPA) for 15% of the share capital. from the security company for up to 149.6 million euros.

This has led Prosegur to be the value that has risen the most in today's session of the entire Continuous Market, with an increase of 22.70%. Prosegur Cash was the second best value, with an increase of 6.01%.

Regarding the Ibex 35, the main bullish value has been IAG ( 4.45%), followed by Grifols ( 3.75%), Meliá ( 3.02%), Fluidra ( 3.01%), ACS ( 2.21 %) and ArcelorMittal (2.14%).

On the contrary, Cellnex (-1.98%), Colonial (-1.35%), Sabadell (-1.09%), Naturgy (-1.04%), Iberdrola (-1.01%) and Logista (-0.78%) have been the biggest falls.

The rest of the European stock markets have also closed positively, with advances of 0.86% in Frankfurt, 0.62% in London, 0.42% in Milan and 0.33% in Paris.

For its part, a barrel of Brent was trading at $81.46, 1.33% less, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) fell 1.73%, to $76.93.

In the debt market, the yield on the Spanish bond with a 10-year maturity stood at 3.6662%, above the 3.637% recorded at the close of Tuesday. In this way, the risk premium against German debt moderated to 103 basis points.

For its part, the euro depreciated 0.23% against the dollar in the mid-session, until trading at an exchange rate of 1.0854 'greenbacks' for each euro.