The biggest drops in the selective in the final stretch of Monday’s session were taken by Repsol and Sacyr, with drops of 3.16% and 3.04%, respectively. On the contrary, the biggest advances among the components of the Ibex 35 were those carried out by Solaria, with a rise of 4.27%, as well as by Naturgy (Natural Gas), with a rise of 1.62%, and Acciona, with a rebound of 1.51%. On their side, the representatives of the banking sector in the selective Madrid traded in negative. Specifically, Banco Santander left 1.69%, while Caixabank lost 1.12% and BBVA 0.64%. Likewise, the Sabadell shares fell 1.65% and those of Bankinter 0.99%. The rest of the main European stock markets, which had also started the session on Monday in positive, registered falls before the opening of Wall Street. In this way, the London Ftse100 fell 0.39%, while the Frankfurt Dax lost 0.29% and the Parisian Cac 40 lost 0.13%. Despite being one of the weeks with the lower trading volume in the year, there are several references that have been announced in the session This morning China’s industrial production was known, which increased by 3.8% in July, a figure lower than that of the previous month and significantly below analysts’ expectations. Without leaving the region today, the People’s Bank of China has carried out its first interest rate cuts since last January, given the slowdown in the recovery of the national economy. In a statement, the institution confirmed the reduction of 10 basis points in one-year medium-term loan facilities (MLF) and 7-day reverse repurchase agreements (“repos”), placing both rates at new lows. historical. The operations announced today are an injection of 600,000 million yuan with the aim of “maintaining reasonable and sufficient liquidity” in the banking system. Already in the afternoon, data on the economic health of the manufacturing sector from the Empire State Manufacturing Survey and the NAHB Housing Market Index will arrive in the US, where the market expects a slowdown. Is there an excess of optimism on Wall Street? After a close with increases of more than 1% in the main Wall Street indices, with the Nasdaq even registering increases of more than 2%, the opening of Wall Street extends the falls. The Dow Jones lost 0.5% to 33,585 points, the S&P500 lost 0.5% to 4,258.80 points and the NASDAQ 100 lost just over two tenths to 13,010 points. Last week, the optimism after knowing the inflation data and the production index in the US, generated a strong rise in the indices due to the expectation that the FED will not be so aggressive in its process of raising interest rates as it is foreseeable that inflation has peaked. Some increases that have made the Nasdaq enter the bull market, after rising more than 20% from its previous lows. These sharp changes in investor sentiment are going to continue in the short term, at least until the macroeconomic scenario, both in terms of high inflation and economic growth, is clarified, they say at Link Securities. In addition, and this is an issue that must be taken into account, the recent recovery of the stock markets during the month of July and the first half of August, in which the quarterly results, “less bad” than expected by analysts and investors, have also played an important role, it has been produced with a very low trading volume, “which takes away some of its credibility”. %, up to 94.19 dollars while West Texas lost 5.4%, on 88.30 dollars. The EUR/USD corrects positions against the dollar and at the moment the pair falls to 1.0196 dollars. In the cryptocurrency market, Bitcoin falls just over two percentage points to $24,127, while Ethereum loses just over 5.6% to $1,895.62.