HE Ibex 35 started this Friday’s session with an increase of 0.59%This led him to return to the psychological level of 9,000 integers. 9,015.69 pointsOn a day marked by uncertainty over the consequences of the conflict between Israel and Hamas and the publication of job results and GDP in Spain.
Before the start of the trading day, CaixaBank It reported to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) that it closed the first nine months of the year with a net profit of 3 billion 659 million euros; This is 48.2% more than in the same period in 2022, when it earned 2 billion 469 million euros.
airline holding company IAGmade an after-tax profit of 2 billion 151 million euros; This corresponds to almost 13 times the profit it made in the same period the previous year. mapfre It also said in an early report to the CNMV that, as a result of an extraordinary impact due to the disruption in the United Kingdom, it closed the first nine months of 2023 with a net profit of 470.6 million euros, 3.6% less than in the same period last year. State job.
In the macro field, at the beginning of this day, the development of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Spain for the third quarter was announced. Spain’s economy grew by 0.3%, a tenth less than in the previous quarterIt eased its interannual rate by two-tenths from 2% in the second quarter to 1.8% in the third quarter due to the reduced contribution of domestic demand.
In the early stages of this session, higher highs Within the Ibex 35, these are IAG (+3.19%), Banco Sabadell (+2.58%) and CaixaBank (+2.02%), while on the opposite side the most prominent ‘red lanterns’ are Fluidra (-2.56%). became Inditex. (-0.57%) and Iberdrola (-0.38%).
Europe’s leading stock exchanges opened with a mixed trend this Friday: Milan up 0.1%; Paris lost 0.08%, Frankfurt lost 0.07% and London lost 0.06%.
At the opening of the stock market, the barrel price of Brent quality oil, which is the reference for the Old Continent, was above $89 with an increase of 1.56%, while Texas increased by 1.62% to $84.56. Tensions in the Middle East following the open war between Hamas and Israel and the situation in Iran, as well as the conflict in Ukraine and pressures regarding the disruption of supplies from Russia and Saudi Arabia.
While the price of the euro against the dollar in the foreign exchange market was at the level of 1.0554 dollars, Spain’s risk premium was around 111.5 basis points and the interest on the 10-year bond was at 3.949%.