The Ibex 35 starts the week with a rise of 0.72% and touches 8,000 points pending the ECB

MADRID, 18 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ibex 35 has started this Monday's session with a rise of 0.72%, which has led the selective to stand at 8,001 integers at 9:01 a.m., in a week that will continue to be marked by the presentation of business results and by the meeting of the European Central Bank (ECB).

Specifically, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) will undertake this Thursday the first rise in interest rates in the eurozone since July 2011, thus ending an era in the monetary policy of the eurozone in the face of harassment runaway inflation and the unbridled fall in the price of the euro against the dollar in recent months, while Italy is going through a new political crisis.

In this way, after advancing 1.81% on Friday, the Madrid selective began the session above the psychological level of 8,000 integers with most of the values ​​in green.

Thus, in the early stages of this Monday's session, the biggest increases were scored by ArcelorMittal (2.22%), Acerinox (2.21%), IAG (1.61%), Inditex (1.53%) , PharmaMar (1.49%), BBVA (1.32%) and Sabadell (1.23%), while on the opposite side were Naturgy Energy (-0.92%), Solaria (-0.28% ), Iberdrola (-0.28%) and Endesa (-0.15%).

The rest of the European stock markets also opened higher with increases of 0.6% for Frankfurt and Paris and 0.9% for London.

On the other hand, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, was at a price of 103 dollars, with an increase of 2%, while the Texas was placed at 96 dollars, after rising a two%.

Finally, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0137 'greenbacks', while the Spanish risk premium stood at 111 basis points, with the interest required on the ten-year bond at 2.451%.