The Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV) registered this Thursday a slight gain of 0.44% in its main indicator, which stood at 49,535.58 units, thus breaking a two-session downward streak, in a day with few changes in the main stock indices. .
“The capital market registered few changes among the main global stock indices,” the director of Economic and Financial Analysis of Banco Base, Gabriela Siller, told EFE.
In Mexico, Siller said, the Price and Quotation Index (IPC), the main indicator of the BMV, “closed the session with a gain of 0.44%, breaking a streak of 2 sessions of decline.”
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Inside, he detailed, the profits of the stations stood out: América Móvil (+2.30%), Femsa (+1.34%), Banorte (+0.86%), Cemex (+1.15%) and Arca Continental (+0.84%).
On the day, the peso did not suffer any change against the dollar, trading at 20.2 units per greenback, the same level as in the previous session, according to data from the Bank of Mexico.
The IPC closed the session at 49,535.58 units, with a gain of 218.96 points and a positive variation of 0.44% compared to the previous day.
The volume traded in the market reached 85.86 million securities for an amount of 4,524.4 million pesos (about 223.7 million dollars).
Of the 455 firms that traded on the day, 280 ended with their prices rising, 147 had losses and 28 closed unchanged.
The securities with the greatest upward variation were from Banco BBVA (BBVA), with 2.48%; of the telecommunications giant América Móvil (AMX B), with 2.3%, and of the water storage, conduction and improvement company Grupo Rotoplas (AGUA), with 1.91%.
In contrast, the greatest downward variations were from the Frisco mining company (MFRISCO A-1), with -3.92%; from the restaurant controller CMR (CMR B), with -3.82%, and from the steel industry ICH (ICH B), with -2.23%.
For its part, Wall Street closed in mixed territory and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, its main indicator, rose 0.07%, to 43,325 units, closing positive for the fifth consecutive session after a day without much movement.
At the close of the session, the selective S&P 500 fell 0.04%, to 6,037 points, and the technological Nasdaq fell 0.05%, to 20,020 points.
Analysts today indicate that the ‘Santa Claus rally’, which refers to the tendency of stocks to rise in the last five market days of the year, seems to be deflating, and they also point out that the gains could be more moderate as the 31st approaches.
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