Piazza Affari up in the last session of the week. Tomorrow and Monday the stock exchange will be closed for the Easter holidays. The Ftse Mib scores + 0.57% at 24,862 points at the end of the day. There are no surprises today from the ECB which continues its gradual path of normalization of monetary policy. The only new element in the statement is the reference to the fact that inflationary developments reinforce the expectation that net purchases under QE should end in the third quarter. “After an aggressive turn in March aimed at reducing bond purchases a little faster than expected, today’s ECB meeting was something of a non-event in terms of any new news, not least because it was pretty close to. last meeting “, explains Charles Hepworth, Investment Director of Gam.
In Milan, Atlantia holds the spot (+ 4.29% to € 22.83) after Edizione, the holding company headed by the Benetton family, and Blackstone announced the launch of a totalitarian tender offer for € 23 per share aimed at delisting the share. . The US fund Blackstone said it was ready to play a role in the next chapter of the infrastructure group’s development.
Among the banks, both Unicredit and Intesa Sanpaolo ended the session at + 1.38%. Among the stocks in trouble, TIM stands out with over -2 per cent.