Strategic markets including the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and the United States have increased their tourism expenditure in Spain by over 10% between January and August this year. This significant increase is according to data presented by tourism advisors from these countries during the IV Turespaña Convention last week. However, on a cautious note, the minutes from the September meeting underscore the central bank’s concern about the weak growth in the Eurozone. Meanwhile, the organic cattle sector remains the most dominant in eco-friendly production, while organic aquaculture demonstrates promising growth with a 7% increase.

The Brent opened with virtually no change, at a price of 78.39 dollars per barrel. The gold opened the session with virtually no change, at a price of 2657.3 dollars per ounce. Now, regarding equity, the EURO STOXX 50 started the session with virtually no change, at 4954.34 points. The DAX 30 started the session with virtually no change, in 19179.33 points, the FTSE 100 started the session with virtually no change, at 8228.66 points, and the EURONEXT 100 started the session with virtually no change, at 1480.89 points.

Close to market opening, the following macroeconomic indicators for Europe were published:, the core CPI (YoY) of Germany in September (1.8%).

The IBEX opened with virtually no change, at 11639.5 points. The best performers at the beginning of the day have been ACCIONA ENERGIA (+1.259 %), NATURGY (+1.119 %) and ENAGAS with a change of (+0.827 %) on its values respectively. The worst performers at the beginning of the day have been INDRA (-0.941 %), AENA (-0.902 %) and ARCELORMITTAL with a change of (-0.885 %) on its values respectively.