MILANO – 10.50 am. The new lockdown decided by Germany for the Easter period pushed the price lists down this morning. In a night press conference, the Chancellor spoke of a “very serious situation” due to the spread of the English variant and decided to extend the closures until April 18. The lighthouse of the markets, however, is aimed above all at this afternoon, when the Fed chairman Jerome Powell and the secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen will intervene at a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee. In Europe, the start is therefore entirely downward: Milan drops 0.87%, London drops 0.37%, Frankfurt loses 0.48% and Paris 0.61%. In Asia, weighed down by Chinese financial markets, the main indices closed down, with Tokyo at -0.61%.
Little eventful start for it spread: the difference between ten-year BTPs and German Bund counterparts opens stable at 96.1 points, after closing at 96.3 with the yield of Italian bonds at 0.637%. Among currencies, slightly lower start to the day due toeuro: the single European currency changes hands at 1.1929 dollars compared to the value of 1.1934 last night after the closing of Wall Street. The euro, on the other hand, appreciates against the yen at 129.62.
Among the macroeconomic data of the day, Istat recorded an improvement in industry turnover, up by 2.5% on a monthly basis but down by 1.6% over the year. On the average of the last three months, the overall index remained stable compared to the previous three months.
Among commodities, the Petroleum, with WTI crude losing 1.12% to $ 60.91 a barrel. Brent also dropped by 1.07% to 63.9 dollars a barrel. On the other hand, theoro: Immediate delivery bar earns 0.3% at $ 1,739 an ounce.
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