The Ibex 35 closes above 17,000 points for the first time in its history. 10th all-time high of the year

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By Jack Ferson

Spanish equities have once again broken the mold with their new historical maximum, the tenth of the year, fourth in December and for its second attempt to surpass another historical level, that of 17,000 points. On Friday it failed in its attempt to settle above that level, but today, with the gains, it has closed above.

The bank and its recovery in this session is the great incentive of the selective, showing off the good progress and the advances greater than the 46% that marks the selective a few sessions before closing the stock market year.

He IBEX 35 It rises 1.11% at the close to 17,041.40 points with gains for values ​​such as Bankinter 3.02%, IAG (Iberia) 2,85%, y Acciona Energy 2.58% and the falls they experience Telefónica 2,18%, Inditex 2,08%, and the oil company Repsol 0,69% on this Monday. Tenth all-time high of 2025.

Among the protagonists, Ferrovial has managed to enter the Nasdaq 100, thus becoming one of the 100 largest non-financial companies in the US stock index . This milestone occurs 19 months after its debut in the North American market.

Ferrovial’s entry into the Nasdaq 100 has occurred along with five other companies, which has resulted in the exit of six other companies. These changes will take effect before the market opens on Monday, December 22.

Besides, Ferrovial has announced the launch of a new program to buy back its own shares for a maximum amount of 800 million euros. The company has also announced that it is ending the ongoing buyback program announced to the market that began on June 2, 2025.

Furthermore, the oil company Repsol has completed the 300 million euro buyback program ahead of schedule and is going to redeem nearly 23 million of its own shares.

For its part, strong increases for IAG (Iberia) although its room for improvement is clearly noticeable. It is the favorite in its sector along with JPMorgan and Bank of America for the next year, despite the slippage in the results. Among the best, which has room for improvement because it rises below the Ibex 35 and that analysts do not see a sale in its shares.

De facto, it does not present sales advice at this time of market, It is at 5% of maximums and analysts generally give a double-digit margin of improvement on the value, even up to 46%.

On the other hand, Activate Renewable Energies has reached an agreement with Mexico Infrastructure Partners (MIP) for the sale of a 49% stake in its 1.3GW photovoltaic portfolio in the United States, and all of two wind farms in Mexico that total 321MW, for an approximate value of US$1,000 million (€855 million, share value). The photovoltaic portfolio in the United States includes four solar plants: Red Tailed Hawk (458MWp) and Fort Bend Solar (316MWp) in Texas; High Point Solar Farm (127MWp) in Illinois; and Union Solar (415MWp) in Ohio.

Already in the rest of Europe, widespread advances, the EURO STOXX 50 rises 0.54% to 5,751 points, the CAC 40 advances 0.81% to 8,124 points, the Dax gana 0.07% to 24,224 points and the FT 100 rises at the close of Friday 1.10% to 9,754 points.

And on Wall Street, The fear of AI remains latent and continues to permeate the atmosphere among investors with concern.

NVIDIA It has become the epicenter of the debate on AI chips because Washington has partially opened the H200 tap to China, with a peak of 25% and under enormous political focus. At the same time, large Chinese technology companies are already positioning themselves to buy and Nvidia itself is studying increasing production in response to demand.

Elon Musk, CEO de Tesla is the master of promises on Wall Street. The development of your robotaxi, Cybercab, is still late and its robot project, Optimus sounds like another vision of the future. While this is happening, electric vehicle sales remain the company’s main source of income. Faced with these two extremes of future promises and a stagnant present with a decrease in sales, Tesla’s stay within the trillion-dollar club on Wall Street could be in danger.

The manufacturer of Roomba robot vacuum cleaners declared bankruptcy this Sunday. iRobot has activated United States legal procedures to delist and be transferred to two Chinese companies who acted as lender and supplier. The company was going through a crisis due to falling revenues, increasing losses and the cancellation of the Amazon purchase agreement.

At the close of the Spanish session, the DOW JONES drops 0.05% to 48,434 points, the S&P 500 rises 0.05% up to 6,833 points and the Nasdaq OMX cuts 0.06% to 23,181 points.

In the rest of the market, we start with the fixed income market, with cuts in the 10-year Spanish bond, from 0.54% to 3.294% while in the case of the German bund, there are decreases of 0.45% to 2.8480%. The risk premium drops 0.16% and corrects to 44.72 basic points.

In raw materials, oil fell sharply this session, with cuts of 1.23% for the Brent barrel future up to $640.35 while West Texas places its price at $56.49, and gives up 1.31%. He Oro repeats opening levels but in search of new highs, at $4,327 per ounce.

Of Bitcoin again with significant cuts that exceed 2% to $87,042 per asset. Lastly, in the relationship Euro Dollar with a rise for the single currency of 0.18% to 1.1761 units.

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