The Ibex advances positions with attention focused on Brexit

Tonight British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is scheduled to have dinner with European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen to try to get the talks back on track after they derailed late last week.

"Today is a quiet day on the data front on the international scene, with the focus on Brexit, Covid-19 and the EU Council meeting starting tomorrow, focusing on the gap between the EU and Hungary / Poland Macron and Merkel want the Brexit talks to be kept off the agenda for this week's meeting, "Danske Bank experts say in their daily report.

It should be noted that the United Kingdom has announced this Wednesday that it will suspend the tariffs imposed on the United States to soften the dispute over aid to Boeing and Airbus.

As for vaccines against Covid, investors are also awaiting the start of vaccination in the United Kingdom this Tuesday, without forgetting that the preliminary results of phase III of the clinical trials published in the journal 'The Lancet' have given as As a result, the Oxford and AstraZeneca vaccine has acceptable safety levels and is effective.

For the rest, Minister Nadia Calviño will explain this Wednesday in Congress the government's position regarding the merger of CaixaBank and Bankia. In addition, also at the business level, 'El Confidencial' published today that Siemens Gamesa is investigating alleged internal irregularities in its subsidiary in India. The company is the worst on the Ibex, with falls of more than 2%.

In Asia, the session has been settled with rises after the rises seen last day on Wall Street, with S&P and Nasdaq marking new all-time highs driven by the hope of a new economic aid package.

Finally, it should be noted that the Italian Parliament and Senate must ratify this Wednesday the reform of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) agreed in December last year by the finance ministers of the eurozone, a reform that aims to ensure that the ESM has more power in future bailouts and country surveillance. The chronicles say that the Italian Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, is playing the opening of a deep crisis in his fragile Executive depending on what happens with this vote.