The Ibex loses 1.18% at the close of the session, after the meeting of the ECB and the Fed

MADRID, 16 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ibex 35 has registered a fall of 1.18% at the close of the session this Thursday, falling again to the level of 8,000 integers, after the emergency meeting of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the announcement of the rise of types in the United States.

Thus, the selective Spanish has returned today to register 'red numbers', after yesterday's meeting of the ECB allowed the Madrid index to recover part of the ground lost in the last week due to the change in monetary policy of the banking supervisor.

However, with the Ibex 35 already closed, the United States Federal Reserve (Fed) announced its decision to raise interest rates by 75 basis points, to a target range of between 1.5% and 1.75%. .

This represents an increase 25 points higher than the increases of 50 basis points that the US central bank had considered in recent weeks for its next meetings. Furthermore, the Fed had not undertaken a rate hike of 75 basis points since November 1994, under the chairmanship of Alan Greenspan.

Among today's references, the meeting of the economy and finance ministers of the euro zone in Luxembourg stands out to discuss the macroeconomic context and the latest ECB proposal. Upon entering the meeting, the First Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Nadia Calviño, has indicated that she sees a "clear message" from the European institutions and the ECB to ensure the resilience of the eurozone and avoid episodes of fragmentation in the European market.

It should be noted that the ECB yesterday decided to apply flexibility in the reinvestment of the maturities of its debt portfolio corresponding to the anti-pandemic program (PEPP) and ordered to speed up the design of "a new anti-fragmentation instrument" aimed at calming tensions in sovereign debt markets .

On the other hand, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England has decided to raise the reference interest rate for its operations by 25 basis points, which will now stand at 1.25%, its highest level since 2009, according to announced the institution, which has raised the price of money for the fifth consecutive meeting.

The Swiss National Bank has also decided to tighten its monetary policy by raising the reference rate and the interest rate on sight deposits by 50 basis points, the first rise since September 2007, which will now stand at -0. .25% to counteract the increase in inflationary pressure.

In this scenario, the Ibex 35 has closed at 8,078.1 integers, with most of its values ​​'in the red'. On the side of falls, ArcelorMittal (-5.32%), IAG (-5.29%), Acerinox (-4.55%), Repsol (-3.97%), Fluidra (-3, 87%), PharmaMar (-3.87%) and CIE Automotive (-3.54%).

Enagas (2.06%), Red Eléctrica (1.89%), Naturgy (1.69%), Cellnex (1.67%), CaixaBank (0.64%), Meliá (0.38%), Indra (0.29%) and Solaria (0.25%) were the companies that closed positive in today's session.

In the continuous market, the shares of Ezentis have fallen by 20.55% after the firm has requested a rescue of 70 million euros from the State Society of Industrial Participations (SEPI).

Despite today's fall, the Ibex has been the selective less affected by the 'bearish' trend, since the rest of the European stock markets have ended with declines of more than 2%: 2.39% in Paris, from 3 .14% in London, 3.31% in Frankfurt and 3.32% in Milan.

The main US indices also fell: 2.44% the Dow Jones, 3.01% the S

The price of a barrel of Brent crude oil, a benchmark for Europe, stood at 118.22 dollars, with a decrease of 0.23%, while a barrel of WTI oil, a benchmark for the US, rose 0. 35%, up to $115.71.

Finally, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0526 'greenbacks', while the Spanish risk premium reached 118 basis points, with the interest required on the ten-year bond at 2.871%.