Started badly, Monday on the Stock Exchange is starting to close even worse. In the afternoon, the main European lists accelerate downwards: just over an hour after closing the Ftse Eb drops 1,2%, while Frankfurt lose 1,6%, Paris 1,5% and London 0,7%. In the same minutes it BTP-Bund spread one basis point was returned above the 180 threshold. Euro down against the dollar below 1,38 (at 1,376).
Several factors fuel the tension on the markets. Not only the developments of the Ukrainian crisis, today at the center of a G7 meeting, but also the victory of the anti-euro right in the French administrative elections (not a good sign in view of the imminent European consultations) and the disappointing data relating to the PMI indices of China e of the Eurozone.
To all this were added some lower-than-expected US data in the afternoon. In the month of March, the preliminary indication relating to theUS manufacturing PMI it was 55,5 points, down on February (57,1 points) and below analysts' forecasts (56,5 points).
On the main list of Piazza Affari the best titles are those of Gtech (+ 1,81%), Monte dei Paschi (+ 1,33%), Pirelli (+ 1,01%), Luxottica (+ 0,41%) and Snam (+0,24%). The worst performances are instead those of Yoox (-4,16%), Moncler (-3,52% on the first day on the Ftse Mib), Banco Popolare (-3,06%), A2a (-2,65) and Where's Banca (-2,54%).
The share of Banca Etruria: the top management of the company are under investigation for false accounting.
Unicredit leaves the field about a percentage point after Moody's confirmed the "Baa2" rating on the financial solidity of the institution, with a "stable" outlook.
UnipolSai it moved into negative territory (-0,6%), after closing Friday's session with a leap of 9,8%.
Finmeccanica travels just above parity (+0,14%): according to La Repubblica, the group would have received four offers for the shares held in Ansaldo-Sst and AnsaldoBreda. The news did instead take off the share of Ansaldo Sts (+ 2%).
