In the middle of the day, the stocks of Stm and Wdf shine in Piazza Affari, both up by about two percentage points, to 6,365 and 8,995 respectively EUR. These are two of the best performances of the Ftse Mib, even higher than those of many banking stocks, which also benefit from the first Tltro auction by the European Central Bank.
Purchases of the shares of stmicroelectronics are linked to the words of the financial director Carlo Ferro on the performance of the quarter. The CFO anticipated that the Italian-French semiconductor company closed the third quarter in line with forecasts, i.e. with revenues growing by around 3% and an Ebitda margin up by 34,4%.
As for World Duty Free, today's rise follows yesterday's boom (+4,75%), which came in the wake of expectations of an acceleration in extraordinary operations following the departure of the managing director José Maria Palencia.