The Ibex 35 ended this Monday’s session with a gain of 1.93% in a day in which the financial and energy sectors strongly pulled the Spanish benchmark index. After an opening that was practically flat, the index gained traction throughout the day until it closed at 19,752 points.
On the corporate front, investors have been focused on the repercussions of the internal investigation facing the president and CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, after it became known that he maintained an extramarital relationship with an executive accused of spying in favor of Beijing.
On the geopolitical front, U.S. President Donald Trump has admitted in an interview with the U.S. network "CBS" that public dissatisfaction with the military intervention in Iran, the rise in fuel prices, and microeconomic problems were behind the defeat of the Republican Party in the midterm legislative elections ("midterms").
Within the Spanish benchmark index, the biggest gains of the day belonged to Solaria (4.37%), Indra (4.16%), ArcelorMittal (4.02%), Sacyr (3.95%), Santander (3.5%), IAG (3.43%), and Caixabank (3.06%).
At the opposite end, the only decline was Repsol (-1.81%), while the more moderate increases were recorded in Telefónica (0.77%), Inditex (0.98%), Laboratorios Rovi (0.95%), and Amadeus (0.13%). Endesa closed the session repeating price (0%).
Elsewhere in European markets, gains also predominated: Milan added 1.94%; Frankfurt, 1.72%; Paris, 1.16%; and London, 1.02%.
In the commodities market, the Brent barrel falls 4.47%, to 93.93 dollars, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) stands at 87.86 dollars, which represents a decline of 3.3%.
In fixed income, the yield on the Spanish sovereign bond has remained virtually stable at 3.828%. At the same time, the euro has appreciated by 0.58% against the dollar, to an exchange rate of 1.1205 dollars per euro.