The Ibex closes flat (+ 0.03%) and does not recover the 9.200 burdened by banks

The Ibex 35 registered a slight rise of 0.03% on Tuesday, with which it failed to recover the 9,200 points. The selective has been burdened by the banking sector, preventing it from following in the wake of European markets, which have closed with advances of around half a point.

This Tuesday has led the rises Grifols (2.39%), although the main engine of the index has been Inditex, which has managed to be the second most bullish value of the day after rising by 1.97%, thus recovering from the losses suffered this Monday. Ferrovial closed in the third position of the high part of the index with a rise of 1.91%.

Among the most bearish values , some banks ​​stood out such as Sabadell (-3.42%) and Santander (-1.41%), particularly punished by the Brexit crisis, but also to other entities such as BBVA (-1.1%) and Bankia (-1.02%). The banking sector does not raise its head after last week's decision by the Federal Reserve (Fed) not to raise rates this year.

Bad day also for IAG (-1.62) and Mapfre (-1.61%), which have ranked as the second and third value with the highest losses of the day. New session of falls also for Ence (-1.34%), the ninth consecutive red day, after having managed to close in green in only one session of the last 16 due to the threat of its plant in Pontevedra being shut down.

In the Continuous Market, NH fell -2.32% after Fitch downgraded its outlook on the company to stable risk after the purchase of Minor. Prisa, on the other hand, has lost 1.72% the same day that Amber Capital has been in the spotlight after exceeding 29% of the capital in the company.

BREXIT CONTINUES TO BE A PROTAGONIST

In this way, the Brexit has remained the protagonist on Tuesday after the latest setback for Theresa May last night, when she saw how Parliament took control of the process of leaving the EU. The possibility of a hard Brexit and the possibility that May ends up stepping down sooner rather than later becomes more and more powerful.

With regard to the macroeconomic calendar, on Tuesday the Gfk consumer confidence index of Germany (April) was published, which has fallen to 10.4 (below the expected level of 10.8).

Outside the European market, today there is still talk regarding Apple and the presentation made on Monday of its news related to the world of television and streaming. Bloomberg reports that 'the elites of Hollywood' (from Steven Splielberg to Jennifer Aniston) attended this presentation yesterday. However, the stars could not prevent Apple from falling yesterday after experts said that the event had "few surprises."

Ahead of Apple, Samsung has announced a profit warning on Tuesday, while Uber's purchase of its main competitor in the Middle East, Careem, for 3.1bn dollars also stands out.