MILANO – European stock exchanges rebound after Friday’s thud linked to tensions related to the slowdown in the distribution of vaccines with Wall Street which ended the worst week ever, especially marked from the Gamestop story, with the “war” between small retail investors and large funds. At the end of the day Milano marks a gain of 1.17%, London final 0.91% salt, Frankfurt 1.41% e Paris 1.16%. The American stock market also regained its share and at the close of the EU the Dow Jones rose by 0.8%, the Nasdaq added 2% and the S & P500 at +1.2 percent.
The Piazza Affari stands out Atlantia, which jumps up sharply (follow live) on the rumors of further steps by CDP towards a binding offer to close the Autostrade per l’Italia dossier. The stock is suspended several times with a double-digit gain then closes at + 8.7%. As anticipated by Bloomberg, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, together with the Blackstone and Macquarie funds, are asking until the end of February for a binding offer for Aspi. The consortium sent a letter to Atlantia last night in which it expresses the belief that it will be able to formulate a ‘binding’ offer by the end of February. In the letter, according to what is learned, no price is formulated. At this point Atlantia will convene the board of directors for Friday 5 February to evaluate the letter and decide how to proceed.
Indices are also supporting investor sentiment SMEs on the manufacturing sector: the indicator that is constructed with the interviews with the purchasing managers of companies in the euro zone touches 54.8 points in January, from 54.7 in the preliminary reading and down from the previous 55.2 points. However, it is largely confirmed in the area of economic expansion, ie above 50 points. The figure for Italy stands at 55.1 points, above forecasts, and the Minister for Economic Development, Stefano Patuanelli, he comments: “It is an excellent signal, we must quickly close the government crisis”.
Negative, from Germany, the data on retail sales, down by 9.6% on a monthly basis, well beyond the expected -2.6% and against the previous + 1.1%. On an annual basis, sales rose by 1.5% against the estimated + 5% and 5% in November.
Rises in line with what has been seen in Asia, where all the lists have moved positively – with Tokyo which closed at + 1.55% – despite the decline in Chinese manufacturing pmi e the coup in Myanmar, with the arrest of the leader Aung San Suu Kyi. To
On the inside it spread returns to drop below 115 points at the closing on Friday and goes to 112 while the consultations of the President of the Chamber Roberto Fico are underway and a table is being worked on on the program to recompose the majority.euro it is slightly down, and changes hands at 1.2123 dollars and 126.87 yen. The dollar, on the other hand, is stable against the yen at 104.67.
Finally, commodities. The prices of the Petroleum they continue to rise, with the WTI increasing by 1.74% 53.15 dollars a barrel and the Brent rising by 1.82% to 56.04 dollars a barrel. Uphill also theoro, at $ 1863 an ounce.
To report the silver rally that flies over $ 30 an ounce. On the Comex there were increases of 13% to 30.35 dollars an ounce. A phenomenon that is seen as a new lunge of the small traders of Reddit after the GameStop case (today in sharp decline on Wall Street where it came to lose a third). Now the focus is on silver and the hashtag “#silversqueeze” dominates on Twitter. But on the same Reddit platform that launched the video game chain case, some other operators immediately took action to block purchases, pointing out that Citadel – one of the funds against which the network had turned – would have benefited.
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