The Ibex 35 has stood out this Thursday ahead of the rest of the European stock markets, registering a rise of 3.75%, which has placed it on the verge of 7,500 points (7,498), encouraged by advances in research to obtain an effective vaccine against coronavirus . All the values ​​in the Spanish selective have closed positive, although it is the banks and the tourist companies that have registered the highest profits.

The Meliá hotel chain has been at the front of the table with a rise of 9.15%, while the airline conglomerate IAG (+ 5.3%) and Amadeus (+ 5.4%) have also been among the companies they have behaved better. Aena , for its part, has added 2.98%.

In the last few hours, the company Pfizer and BioNTech have announced positive results in their initial human trials with the vaccine for the pathogen causing Covid-19, which opens the door to some optimism to face the increasing infections. From an economic point of view, the development of a vaccine would suppose an oxygen balloon for tourism since it would allow the citizen to regain confidence both when taking a plane and staying in a hotel establishment.

Along with tourism firms, banks have been the other protagonists of the day on the Stock Market. Bankia's shares have risen 8.05%, followed by those of BBVA (7.28%), Banco Santander (6.65%), Sabadell (6.58%), CaixaBank (5.93%). "Financial institutions have received the support of Bank of America, which is betting on Spain and Italy precisely because of the greater specific weight that banks have in their weighting," explains Aitor Méndez , analyst at IG Markets.

The green has been present in the Spanish index all morning, but has been enhanced with the publication of US employment data. The figure has once again surprised for the better, adding 4.8 million jobs in June, a record number, while the unemployment rate fell more than two points, to 11.1%, as many businesses have reopened.

The data, in fact, have boosted European and American indices more, likely influenced by tomorrow's holiday in the country. Thus, while the Cac 40 in Paris and the Dax in Frankfurt closed with gains of 2.5% and 2.8%, respectively, the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 of Wall Street barely added 0.8%.

In the debt market, the Spanish risk premium was 92 points at the close of the stock markets, with the yield on the 10-year bonds at 0.45%, compared to -0.46% for the German bund that is taken as a reference.

The oil , meanwhile, continues to save the level of 40 dollars per barrel, in the case of the West Texas Intermediate (WTI), which is referenced in the US, as in the case of the Brent , the European benchmark, which exceeds 42.65 green bills .

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