The Ibex 35 fell by 0.35% at this Friday’s mid-session, trimming part of the losses recorded at the start of the day, when it was down 0.70%, and standing at 18,789.6 points around 12:00 p.m.
Investors continue analyzing corporate accounts as quarterly results become known. The banking sector closed its turn this Friday with the presentation of CaixaBank and Unicaja.
CaixaBank has indicated that it closed the first nine months of the year with a profit of 4.962 billion euros, 12.9% more than in the same period of the previous year, while Unicaja closed the first nine months with attributed net profit of 543 million, which represents an increase of 8.1% compared with the same period of the previous year.
For its part, Acerinox has advanced that it obtained a net profit of 162 million euros in the first nine months of 2026, which means multiplying by 23 the gains of seven million recorded in the same period of the previous year.
Tubacex closed the first three quarters of the year with sales of 475.6 million euros, 9.6% less than in the same period of 2025, and losses of 5.5 million in its attributable net profit, compared with the 16.7 million profit of last year.
On the other hand, Neinor Homes has announced that it has agreed, through its wholly owned subsidiary Neinor DMP BidCo, to launch a public takeover bid (OPA) for Aedas Homes at a price of 24 euros in cash per share with the aim of delisting the property developer from trading on the Stock Exchanges of Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid and Valencia.
In the 'macro' sphere, the National Institute of Statistics (INE) has reported that the Spanish economy grew by 0.6% in the third quarter of the year, one tenth less than in the previous quarter, supported above all by domestic demand, which contributed five tenths to growth, compared with the contribution of one tenth from the external sector.
Likewise, the body has published that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) maintained its year-on-year growth in October at 4.9%, at levels seen in February 2023, and thus chained together three consecutive months with an increase above 4%.
In the international sphere, the Monetary Policy Council of the Bank of Japan decided this Friday to keep the benchmark interest rate stable at 1.25%, after considering that underlying inflation is aligned with its 2% stability target.
In this context, the Ibex 35 stocks that were rising the most at mid-session were Repsol (+2.14%), CaixaBank (+1.57%), Grifols (+1.45%), Rovi (+1.30%), Cellnex (+1.17%) and Puig (+1.16%).
On the other side, were Acerinox (-3.06%), Solaria (-2.89%), ArcerlorMittal (-1.79%), BBVA (-1.74%), Ferrovial (-1.71%) and Banco Santander (-1.54%).
The rest of the European markets were evolving in mixed fashion at mid-session. London was up 0.37% and Paris, 0.24%; while Paris was down 0.43%; and Milan, 0.61%.
In the commodities market, the Brent barrel stood at 117.75 dollars, 2.50% higher, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) reached 104.18 dollars, 2.13% higher.
Regarding fixed income, the yield on the Spanish sovereign bond maturing in 10 years fell to 3.943%, from the previous 3.972%. In this way, the risk premium remained almost unchanged at 61.6 basis points.
In the foreign exchange market, the euro appreciated 0.13% against the dollar, so that it recorded an exchange rate in the market of 1.1194 dollars per euro.