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The bags continue Wednesday the rises that they already registered the day before, supported by the latest stimulus measures against the coronavirus announced from different fronts. However, the biggest spring comes from the United States, where the White House and the Senate agreed a two billion dollar rescue plan last night to help companies and citizens to contain the ravages of the coronavirus pandemic.

This new aid package joins fiscal and monetary stimuli from central banks and other financial authorities, including the ECB and the United States Federal Reserve (Fed), to combat the pandemic.

In the case of the United States, last night is the largest economic stimulus program in the history of the country, fearing that it will become the next great epicenter of the pandemic that began in late 2019 in China. The plan, which will be approved this Wednesday, includes a rescue fund through a line of guarantees for loans to companies in difficulties amounting to up to 500,000 million dollars (462,098 million euros), including a helpline of up to 50,000 million dollars (46,233 million euros) to help US airlines , one of the sectors hardest hit by the fall in demand and by the restrictions imposed to contain the epidemic.

In this sense, the companies benefiting from the aid from the rescue fund against Covid-19 must refrain from repurchasing their own shares for the duration of the loan and will be limited in their ability to pay bonuses to their executives, as well as adopt protective measures. to employment.

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Investors, in need of anchor signals these days to lean on to regain confidence, have found in this agreement one of the main reasons to increase their purchases. Proof of this are the increases recorded in the last session of Wall Street, where the Dow Jones recovered 11.37% -the biggest increase since 1933-, or in Asia, where the Nikkei advanced 8.04% and the Shanghai Stock Exchange 2.17%.

The main European parks have taken the witness of the rises on Wednesday and face the session with a positive sign. In Spain, the Ibex 35 exceeds the 3% increase and is close to the 7,000 point level. The Dax in Frankfurt and the Cac 40 in Paris also rose by around 3%, while the Ftse 100 in London and the Ftse Mib in Milan stood out with a rise of 3.7% and 4.4%, respectively.

In the Madrid parquet, almost all the securities are listed in green , led by IAG (+ 11.17%), Colonial (+ 7.21%) and ACS (+ 8.2%).

Regarding the fixed income market, the country's risk premium falls slightly from yesterday's tension and is around 116 points, with the yield on the 10-year sovereign bond at 0.86%, compared to -0.29 % of the German bund that is taken as a reference.

As for oil , the price of a barrel of Brent, a benchmark in Europe, began the day with increases, reaching $ 27, while West Texas, a benchmark for the United States, was trading at around 24 greenbacks .

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