MILANO – 1:30 pm. The European stock exchanges are approaching the holiday break moving into positive territory. The exchanges are supported on the one hand by less worrying news than expected on the front of the spread of the Omicron variant, on the other by the good indications that arrived yesterday from the US economy, with data on GDP and confidence that turned out to be better than expected. In the wake of this cautious optimism, the price lists confirmed their rise in the middle of the day: Milano salt by 0.2%, London grows by 0.2%, Frankfurt 0.6% e Paris 0.4%. On the Asian side it files the sitting up Tokyo (+ 0.83%) in the company of Shanghai (+ 0.6% at closing) e Hong Kong (+0,4%).
On the macroeconomic front, Italy showed a contrasting trend in confidence: that of consumers rose, that of businesses fell. From Confcommercio comes yet another alarm for energy price increases. In the afternoon the United States forecast weekly unemployment benefits, inflation, new home sales and consumer confidence.
It spread between the ten-year BTP and the German Bund it touched 140 basis points on Bloomberg screens, hitting 139 before slowing down to 138 from 134 yesterday. This is the highest level since November 2020. The ten-year BTP yield run is more contained, to 1.12% on the levels of the beginning of November 2021. On the exchange rate, theeuro remains above the threshold of 1.13 dollars regained yesterday: it changes hands at 1.1337 dollars (yesterday at 1.1327). The single currency is also worth 129.48 yen (129.39), while the dollar / yen exchange rate is stable at 114.2 (114.21).
Energy goods remain in the spotlight. The Petroleum it is little changed: the reference WTI crude oil changes hands at 72.82 dollars a barrel compared to 72.76 dollars last night in New York. Brent prices rose by 0.07% to 73.34 dollars a barrel
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