The Santiago Stock Exchange opens up to world markets

A positive day was recorded on Friday at the Santiago Stock Exchange, catching up with Wall Street and the European markets. [19659003] The main local stock index, the IPSA, closed up, up 0.74% with 5,296.77 points. With this result, it reached its highest value a week ago while it was 5,375.12 points last Friday.

The local place recorded a weekly decline of 1.5%, while in the semester it experienced a decline of 4 81%.

Regarding profitability, the IPSA notes a 5.52% loss since the beginning of the year, while the IGPA and the INTER 10 fall respectively from 4.76% and 8.42%.

However, the industrial sector and the utilities sector are the indexes with the largest semi-annual declines, falling by 21.33% and 13.17% each.

On the contrary, bank shares are the only ones that record returns, up 7.47% in the first half of this year.

Today, the increase in IPSA was mainly supported by the oil company Copec, which recorded a lead of 2.20%. Meanwhile, the non-metallic mining company SQM's B series advanced 1.35%. Similarly, Falabella rose 1.95%, while Enelam added 1.37%.

The session was also led by the great decline of the company Vapores which recorded a decrease of 16.99%.

Faced with this, the Stock Exchange asked Vapores to inform it "as soon as possible, of any special circumstance or of any relevant fact that could explain such a significant variation".

The company's reply indicates that the fall is linked to with an ad hoc communication published today by the German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd AG. The company presented a profit warning when it lowered its guidance for Ebit and Ebitda in 2018.

The German shipping company is the company's largest shareholder, reducing forecasts announced today. would have affected the shares of Vapores SA

Wall Street and Europe have positive sessions

Internationally, in New York, dominated the Dow Jones which has increased by 0.23%, although in the week, it dropped by 1.26%. This indicator was tracked by the Nasdaq technologist, who grew by 0.09%, while in the last five days, it was the technologist who decreased the most, or 2.37% .

The S & P 500, up slightly by 0.08%, was only slightly lower, but recorded a weekly decline of 1.33%.

A similar panorama was recorded in Europe, where the Euro Stoxx 50 rose 0.89% this Friday. However, during the week decreased by 1.34%

Specifically, the Swiss MKT, led the increases of 1.74% and recorded a low moderate level of 0.08% in the week. He was followed by the German DAX who gained 1.06%, although he dropped 2.18%. The CAC 40, meanwhile, grew by 0.91% today, but lost 1.19% over the last five days.

A little lower was the Italian FTSE MIB with 0.90% and the Ibex 35 with 0.35%. Both recorded a weekly low of 1.20% and 1.73%, respectively.

Rises have occurred in the midst of the EU immigration agreement that accelerates the rebound of the euro and encourages the rising markets of the old continent.