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With Spain being a dynamic and important member of the European Union, there is plenty of liquidity available in the IBEX 35 for traders to take advantage of. The IBEX 35 offers much higher volatility even though the DAX and FTSE 100 are more often considered.
The top 35 Spanish companies listed on the Bolsa de Madrid are measured by the IBEX 35. The Sociedad de Bolsas, a division of Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles, which oversees the Spanish securities markets, calculates the IBEX 35, which has been in operation since 1992.
The IBEX 35 is calculated in the same way as many other well-known stock market indices. The index price is calculated from a basket of 35 companies and their stock price changes. It is denominated in euros, calculated in real time during the trading hours of the Madrid Stock Exchange and weighted by market capitalization.
The IBEX 35 can change for an almost infinite number of causes, however there are some reasonably typical factors that affect the value of the index. The markets pay particular attention to some of the following events, as they can provide information on the state of the Spanish economy and individual companies in the index.
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