The Ibex 35 has started the session this Thursday with a 0.25% dropwhich has led the selective to situate itself in the 9,140 pointson a day in which investors will continue to await negotiations on the debt ceiling in the United States, as well as the publication of its GDP for the first quarter.
US Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, affirmed this Wednesday that it is “very likely” that the Government “exhausts all its resources” at the beginning of June, which would lead the country to suspension of payments. However, Yellen insisted that they remain “committed” to raising the debt ceiling so as not to delay any payment.
Along these lines, the United States Federal Reserve (Fed) stressed yesterday that the current problem is at an ‘impasse’ due to the disagreement between Democrats and Republicans to renew it. If it is not done on time, the United States could enter suspension of paymentswhich, as the Fed contemplated, “threatens major disruptions to the financial system and tighter financing conditions that weaken the economy.”
In addition, the Fed minutes published after the closure of the Madrid park revealed that the members of the central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) were divided by the amount of the rate hike finally agreed at 25 basis points during their last monetary policy meeting, held on May 2 and 3.
Together with the publication of the GDP of the United States, today the GDP of Germany will be known, as well as the new requests for US unemployment benefits. The markets will also be attentive to the intervention of the Vice President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Luis de Guindos, in Brussels.
In the early stages of this Thursday’s session, the biggest increases within the Ibex 35 they wrote them down Solaria (+1%), Endesa (+0.43%), CaixaBank (+0.4%) and Grifols (+0.31%), while on the opposite side were Banco Sabadell (-1.63%), Sacyr (-1.14 %), Indra (-1.13%), Banco Santander (-1%) and Bankinter, whose shares lost 0.86% at the opening.
The main european squares They opened this Thursday with a mixed sign, specifically, London fell 0.3%, while Milan rose 0.18%, Paris 0.10%, and Frankfurt 0.09%.
In the raw materials market, the price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for the Old Continent, stood at a price of 78.09 dollars, with a decrease of 0.34%, while Texas was trading at 73 .97 dollars, with a drop of 0.5%.
At the opening of the European stock markets, the price of the euro against the dollar stood at 1.0732 ‘green tickets’, while, in the debt market, the interest demanded on the ten-year Spanish bond stood at 3.544%. .
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