(Finance) – Nothing has happened for the main stock exchanges of the Old Continentwhich ends the exchanges on parity. Piazza Affari went against the trend and was the protagonist of a red session. The Stars and Stripes market was substantially tonic, with theS&P-500 which records a capital gain of 0.38%.
In Italy, attention remains on banking stocks due to hypotheses linked to the consolidation of the sector, after UniCredit filed the exchange offer document on Banco BPM with CONSOB on Friday evening, which CEO Andrea Orcel defined as “congruous” . The automotive sector at a European level is suffering, after Porsche SE, the main shareholder of Volkswagen, warned that it could devalue the value of its stake in the main European car manufacturer by up to 20 billion euros; Furthermore, there are rumors regarding Donald Trump’s firm resistance to requests from various American companies to ease his position on duties on goods imported into the United States.
Meanwhile, investors await the decisions of the central banks: on Wednesday the Fed is expected to lower interest rates by 25 basis points, while on Thursday the Bank of Japan is expected to leave them unchanged. Decisions are also awaited in China, England, Sweden and Russia. Christine Lagarde (ECB) said this morning that “the current policy stance is restrictive. But if incoming data continues to confirm our baseline, the direction of travel is clear and we expect to lower interest rates further.”
THE’Euro / US Dollar it is essentially stable and stops at 1.051. THE’Gold maintains the position substantially stable at 2,652.3 dollars an ounce. Bad day for oil (Light Sweet Crude Oil), which continues trading at 70.59 dollars per barrel, down 0.99%.
He leaps up spreadpositioning itself at +118 basis points, with an increase of 4 basis points, with the yield on the 10-year BTP equal to 3.38%.
Among the Euroland indices substantially weak Frankfurtwhich recorded a decline of 0.45%, moved below parity Londonshowing a decrease of 0.46%, and is suffering Pariswhich highlights a loss of 0.71%. Closing in fractional decline for Piazza Affari, with the FTSE MIB which leaves 0.43% on the floor, interrupting the series of three consecutive increases, which began last Wednesday; along the same lines, sells the FTSE Italia All-Sharewhich closes at 36,955 points.
At the close of Milan it turns out that the exchange value in the session of 12/16/2024 it was equal to 2.88 billion euros, with an increase of 17.19%, compared to the previous 2.46 billion euros; while the volumes traded went from 0.83 billion shares in the previous session to 0.96 billion.
Among the best Blue Chips of Piazza Affari, highlighted Telecom Italiawhich shows a strong increase of 5.69%.
Good performance for MPS Bankwhich grows by 2.01%.
Supported Unipolwith a decent gain of 1.94%.
It is moving modestly upwards BPM deskhighlighting an increase of 1.25%.
The strongest sales, however, hit Stellantiswhich ended trading at -4.63%.
Sales galore Ivecowhich suffers a decrease of 4.40%.
Prey for sellers Ferrariwith a decrease of 2.60%.
They focus on sales Amplifonwhich suffers a drop of 2.25%.
At the top among Italian shares a mid-cap, Acea (+4.82%), CIR (+2.83%), Ifis Bank (+2.18%) e Desio and Brianza Bank (+1.61%).
The worst performances, however, were recorded on MFE Bwhich closed at -5.35%.
Bad performance for Carel Industrieswhich recorded a decline of 4.18%.