ROMA – 12 noon. Wall Street effect for European stock exchanges. TO Milano the Ftse Mib, the index of the main companies by capitalization, confirmed its rise by 0.5% at mid-day. The other European squares are also up: London salt by 0.6%, Madrid adds 0.9%, Paris salt by 0.66% e Frankfurt 0.55%. Among the titles featured in Piazza Affari again Banco Bpm (follow the headline live) with investors always betting on the next bank risk. While suffering Unipol (follow live) after the quarterly data.
As happened in Asia, the European markets also followed in the wake of the positive closure of the American markets: Dow Jones e Nasdaq they closed strongly after three days of selling on fears of a pick-up in inflation. A rebound that – from the first indications of the day should continue as the futures are set upwards. The recovery in prices is offset by a positive data on unemployment benefit requests which have recorded new lows in the United States.
The slowdown in the prices of raw materials including iron ore (-6%) and copper (-1%) also contributes to the positive climate. The Petroleum it is slightly down: WTI is traded at $ 63.41 per barrel (-0.64%) while Brent is at $ 66.57, down by 0.48%. On the crude oil front, there is the reopening of the Colonial pipeline (for which the management company would have paid 5 million dollars to the hackers who blocked its operation). However, the slowdown of the second Asian economy is weighing: India grappling with the second wave of the pandemic is holding back the demand for crude oil. The listing oforo growing: it is traded at $ 1,826.90 (+ 0.16%).
Stable opening for the spread between BTP and Bund. At the start of trading, the yield differential between the benchmark ten-year BTP (and the same German maturity is indicated at 117 basis points, the same level as yesterday’s closing. one hundred.
In the Italian night, net rebound to the Tokyo Stock Exchange which closes with a gain of 2.31%. Positive all of Asia (Hong Kong + 0.79% and Shanghai + 1.42%). The only exception is Singapore, down about 3% after the announcement of new restrictions, which will remain in place for a month, to contain the spread of the return of the coronavirus.
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