The Ibex continues its advance in the half session and climbs to 9,250 points

MADRID, 2 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ibex 35 maintained towards the middle of the session the positive momentum that it had registered in the early hours, so that at 12:28 p.m. it stood at 9,251 points, which is equivalent to an increase of 0.91% compared to the data from Thursday's closing .

The dynamism of the selective occurs after the decision of the United States Senate to approve the law on the debt ceiling agreed between the president, Joe Biden, and the leader of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy.

Investors have also woken up with the data on unemployment and affiliation to the Social Security in Spain for the month of May: unemployment fell by 49,260 unemployed (up to 2.74 million), while affiliation to the Social Security accounted for 200,411 new jobs (up to 20.82 million members).

In this context, only five selective stocks were listed in 'red': ACS (-1.84%), Endesa (-0.92%), Naturgy (-0.30%), Iberdrola (-0.17%) and Redea (-0.06%).

On the opposite side were Grifols (5.21%), ArcerloMittal (4.30%), Merlin (3.56%), Colonial (3.11%), Sacyr (2.61%), Solaria (2.16 %) and Acerinox (2.06%).

Investor optimism extended to the rest of the main European indices, with the German DAX advancing 1.05% in the mid-session; the French CAC 40, 1.15%; the Italian FTSE MIB, 0.98%, and the British FTSE 100, 0.91% more.

On its side, the barrel of Brent traded at 75.30 dollars, 1.37% more, while the West Texas Intermediate rose 1.43%, up to 71.10 dollars.

In the debt market, the yield on the Spanish bond with a maturity of 10 years stood at 3.32%, compared to the 3.285% observed at the close of Thursday. Thus, the risk premium against German bonds stood at 102.5 basis points, 1.1 points less.

In the foreign exchange market, the euro appreciated 0.08% against the dollar, reaching an exchange rate of 1.0769 'green tickets' for each unit of the community currency.