25/05/2022 18:04
Purchases convinced today at Piazza Affari. The Ftse Mib index closed at + 1.57% in the area of 24,250 points. Today focus on the data relating to US durable goods orders (+ 0.4% in April, below expectations) and on the minutes relating to the last Fed meeting arriving in the evening. Meanwhile, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Rbnz) raised rates for the fifth consecutive time, taking them from 1.50% to 2%, as expected.
The Unipol stock with + 3.3% was swept up in Piazza Affari, but the best performer of the day was ENI with + 3.75% at € 14.12.
Among the big names in Piazza Affari, Intesa Sanpaolo also did very well with + 2.72%, followed closely by Unicredit with + 2.48%. Finally, a convinced rise also for Stellantis (+ 1.86% to 13.38 euros) which together with Samsung SDI will invest over 2.5 billion dollars for the construction of a production plant for batteries for electric vehicles in Kokomo (Indiana), in the United States. The plant, which is expected to become operational in 2025, will have an initial annual production capacity of 23 gigawatt hours (GWh), with the aim of increasing to 33 GWh in the following years.