Spain's Ibex-35 stock market rises 0.86 pct
Xinhua,March 29, 2018 Adjust font size:
MADRID, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Positive data news from the U.S. economy helped push the Spanish Ibex-35 stock exchange to its second days of rising share values in the penultimate session of trading before the four-day Easter break.
The Ibex-35 opened the day on 9,473.60 points and ended trading after breaking through the psychological 9,500 point barrier with 9,555.00 points, registering an increase of 0.86 percent in prices during the day.
Infrastructure company Acciona enjoyed the best day of all of the companies trading on the Ibex-35 as share prices climbed by 3.93 percent, followed by Red Electrica with a 3.80 percent increase in share values and another energy company, Iberdrola seeing shares rise 3.67 percent.
Mediaset suffered the biggest fall in share prices of the day, as 6.77 percent was knocked off the value of the media company. Tecnicas Reunidas; a company, dedicated to design, engineering and construction suffered a 2.20 percent fall in share prices, while steel producer Arcelormittal shares lost 2.02 percent of their value. Enditem