The Ibex closes with moderate advances in the face of doubts about omicron |Bag chronicle

European stock markets have closed with moderate advances.The caution remains in the face of existing doubts about the omicron variant, but investors have not been able to take advantage of black Friday sales.The IBEX has bounced 0.62% to 8.455.20 points.

The biggest collapses in more than a year suffered by the markets last Friday multiplied the expectation for the start of the week, in order to find out if investors maintained the wave of sales or although they chose to buy in the falls.Investors have opted for purchases on both sides of the Atlantic.

The appearance of the new Covid variant, an omicron, unleashed all alerts last Friday.Analysts were suddenly found with multiple questions that could drastically condition markets and economy.The greatest ease of bomicron infection and above all the possibility of offering more resistance to anticovid vaccines caused the disruption of investors.Analysts stressed that the key would be to solve doubts about whether or not they are resistant to vaccines.At the moment, after the weekend, this unknown has no clear answer.In return, markets breathe with the news contributed by doctors who are treating the first omicron patients.According to its preliminary conclusions, at the moment it seems that the symptoms are no more serious than the usual ones in other variants of the COVID.

News from the field of vaccines have also mitigated alerts.Waiting to confirm precisely if omicron is resistant to existing ones, from Modern they have advanced that by the beginning of 2022 a reformulated vaccine could be available to specifically face this new variant.

Until then, to the shortest term, the markets have received a new wave of border closures and greater restrictions.To the isolation of South Africa, the decisions of countries such as Israel and Japan are joined to close their borders.The measure, as analysts already feared last Friday, has not avoided that omicron has already sneaked into a multitude of countries, especially in Europe.

Wall Street, on its first normal day after its festive semipuente, moves with advances, as has happened in Europe.The Spanish Stock Exchange, again one of the greatest affected by the Batacazo on Friday, has signed up today to the rebound, although this has been moderate.The collapse of 4.96%, the largest in 17 months, gives way to a rebound of 0.62%, which has left the selective Pespaño below the 8.500 points.Last Friday's inverter panic has given rise to the price sales left by the collapse, as proposed by the first international firms that have updated their objective prices on Spanish values after the 'shock' caused by omicron.

The sudden bullish oil turn has promoted the improvement in the contributions of the companies most linked to raw materials, such as Repsol (+2.10%) and the Arceormittal Acerera (+1.07%).

Banks, another of the cyclic sectors collapsed last Friday, have shown a much more discreet balance.Sabadellha up 0.68%.CaixaBank (+0.09%) and Santander (+0.02%) have fired the session practically flat, while BBVA has unmarked with a 0.90%drop.Morgan Stanley analysts have reaffirmed today the bullish potential of the Spanish values of the sector.

Economic alerts have mitigated today, and investors have also softened tourist alerts.Border closures and the greatest restrictions adopted to deal with omicron have not avoided the attempted attempt in Amadeus (+2.36%) and AENA (+0.70%).

The rest of European stock markets have shared a unanimous bullish tone.The rebound has allowed to recover a part of the lost last Friday, waiting for greater scientific news about omicron, and new political decisions in the form of greater restrictions or border closures.After the discounts exceeding 4% on Friday, today the British FTEse has added 0.94%;Italian MIB, 0.73%;The French cac, 0.54% and the German Dax, 0.16%.

Investors have taken advantage of Friday's price sales to take positions in sectors as punished as the oil and bank.Companies linked to crude oil such as BP (+3.2%), Shell (+2.5%) and ENI (+2.3%) have joined the comeback recorded by the price of Brent.Individually they have highlighted the falls of the French Faurecia (-7.9%), deflated by the reduction of forecasts motivated by the decrease in production in the automobile sector, and Juventus of Turin.Their actions have fallen 6.3% in the stock market as the open financial investigation against the football club is known.

The cyclical sectors replicate the increases that make their way in markets such as oil.Investors not only remain in suspense of novelties on omicron.The 'shock' caused on Friday has led OPEC+ (the most allied OPEC countries such as Russia) to postpone the meeting scheduled for today.The new appointment will take place on Wednesday, in order to analyze in greater detail the impact of the new covid variant on the demand for crude.This delay has triggered speculation about the possibility that OPEC+ decides to reverse, at least this month, to the increase in planned production.Oil has responded with increases that are around 4%, with the Brent in $ 74 and the West Texas, reference in the US, at the edge of the $ 71.

Bandazos have taken over the currency market from alerts activated last Friday.The semifestive in Wall Street accentuated whether volatility fits.Today the euro has erased its attempted rebound and folds again to the level of $ 1.12, at the edge of minimum of 15 months.Libra gives ground and loses $ 1.33.The Swiss Franco, in turn strengthens at six years in front of the euro, in 1.04.

The search for shelter not only reflected in new climbing of the Swiss Franco.Purchases moved towards fixed income.Today's day of less changes in debt interest.The negative interest rates of the German BUND still exceed the threshold of -0.30%.In Spain, the interest of the Spanish bond touches the +0.45%, and in the US the profitability of its ten -year debt recovers +1.50%.

Once the weekend has elapsed, the search for shelter cools.But still the quotation of gold is maintained near the barrier of 1.800 dollars per ounce.In the cryptocurrency market, the bitcoin cuts its collapse and accelerates the climbs to 58.000 dollars.