Meliá leads the stock market with a rise of 6.3% and Aena falls to 3.6%
The Ibex 35 closed with a 0.68% gain, a progress that has helped it recover the level of 8,100 integers it lost last week, driven by the presentation of company results, with a focus on Iberdrola , Enagás, Aena, Redeia or Unicaja Banco.
In particular, companies such as Aena presented their quarterly results this Wednesday, which returned to profit after eight quarters of losses and earned 163.8 million until June, or Iberdrola, which increased its profit in the semester by 36% to 2,075 million euros , despite the decline in activities in Spain.
For its part, Enagás increased its profit to 215 million in June, 1% more and Unicaja Banco made 165 million in the semester. Similarly, Meliá also announced yesterday afternoon that it would leave the ‘red numbers’ behind by presenting a profit of three million euros.
In addition, the day will be dominated by the outcome of the meeting of the Federal Reserve (Fed) of the United States, in which the central bank is expected to announce a 75 basis point rate hike by the end of the afternoon.
In this scenario, the Ibex 35 is closed at 8,124 integers, with Meliá (+6.33%), IAG (+5.22%), Fluidra (+3.32%), Banco Sabadell (+2.97%) , CaixaBank (+2.12%) and Acciona Energía (+2.10%) at the start of the increases.
In the negative field, the declines were Rovi (-4.42%), Aena (-3.67%), Naturgy (-2.08%), Merlin (-1.05%), Telefónica (-0.90 %), Cellnex (-0.82%) and Grifols (-0.67%).
In the continuous market, shares of Unicaja Banco have closed up 6.33%, although the most bullish value was artificial, with a rebound of almost 16%, after announcing a 57% increase in the figures released in January. the first half of the year, with the signing of new contracts for 48 million.
The rest of the European stock exchanges are also ‘green’ closed, with an advance of 0.57% in London, 0.75% in Paris, 0.53% in Frankfurt and 1.52% in Milan.
On the other hand, the price of a barrel of Brent oil, a benchmark for the old continent, stood at $106.52, up 2.11%, while Texas stood at $97.42, after a increase of 2.58% .
Finally, the price of the euro against the dollar was 1.0117 ‘greenbacks’, while the Spanish risk premium was 120 basis points, and the required yield on the 10-year bond was 2.124%.
Source: La Verdad
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