After a day and a half of “rest” due to the celebration of the Christmas holidays, the IBEX 35 resumes its activity today seeking to close the last week of 2024 on a positive note, after last Tuesday in which a ‘reduced’ session ended with a advance of 0.33%, to 11,473.90 points.
With an accumulated that adds up profits close to 14% in 2024After closing this Friday, the Ibex will only have one full session left this year, Monday, since Tuesday, December 31, will be like Christmas Eve and the market will close at 2 p.m.
For now, in the first stages of today’s stock market session, the Ibex has opened with falls of 0.11% in 11,461 pointsalthough throughout the morning it has managed to turn around to rise 0.12% to 11,488 points. The values that rose the most in the middle of the session are Indra (1.50%) and BBVA (1.01%), while on the declining side Acciona dropped 1.33%. The best value of the year, IAG, deflated 1.10% today.
In the business section, Ferrovial today distributes an additional cash dividend of 25 million euros, in view of the cash forecasts for this year, which will increase this year’s total cash dividend to 130 million euros. As reported by the construction company chaired by Rafael del Pino to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), this dividend will amount to 0.0346 euros per share and is made effective with a charge to reserves.
Iberdrola is among the values with the most potential for analysts in the next year. Bet on it in its portfolios, Renta 4, Bankinter and also XTB, among others due to its dividend profitability and its defensive nature.
Only the French stock market rebounds today in Europe
While in the rest of European stock markets also see slight changeswith a CAC 40 that rises 0.38% to 7,310 points. For its part, the German DAX rises 0.21% to 19,890 points, the FTSE 100 advances a very slight 0.01% to 8,137 points and the Euro Stoxx rises 0.36% to 4,875 points.
In the asian marketsMSCI’s index of Asia-Pacific shares, which does not include Japan, rose 0.1% to 575.11 points, on track to gain almost 9% this year. The Japanese Nikkei added 2% due to the weakness of the yen. The Chinese CSI300 index advanced 0.1%, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng appreciated 0.3% after Thursday’s holiday.
The main indices of Wall Street They closed practically unchanged on Thursday: the S&P 500 lost a slight 0.04% yesterday, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 0.5% to stand at 20,020.38 points. For its part, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.6% to 43,325.55 points. This Friday, however, The main American indices are trading with drops of between 0.20 and 0.29% in the pre-opening.
Oil futures were little changed on Friday but headed for a weekly rise amid optimism that economic stimulus efforts will fuel a recovery in China, although a stronger dollar capped gains. Crude oil futures Brent rose 0.56% to $73.25 a barrel, while US crude oil West Texas Intermediate It stood at $70.09, 0.75% more than at Thursday’s close.
In the field of currencies, the euro continues to lose strength against the dollar and today the Euro Dollar pair drops 0.08% at 1.0416 greenbacks.
Finally, in the cryptocurrency industry, Bitcoin rises 0.78% in the last 24 hours, at $96,244.
In the agenda macro Today, this morning the retail sales data for November was published in Spain, with an increase of 2% after in October they registered an increase of 3.5% year-on-year. There are five consecutive months of growth. In the United States, preliminary data on wholesale inventories will be released in November, showing a slight increase of 0.2% in the previous month.