Piazza Affari is the best stock exchange in Europe in 2019. Since the beginning of the year, the Ftse Mib, the index of the 40 main stocks of the Italian stock exchange, it gained 16,7%, more than the European average (+13,13 for the Stoxx 50) and more than the Paris Stock Exchange (+14,36%), than that of Frankfurt (+9,16%), than that of London (+8,10%), than of Madrid (+8,79%) and that of Zurich (+12,44%).
But how do you explain that the Stock Exchange is running at a time when the Italian economy is dramatically at a standstill and fluctuates between technical recession and stagnation while confidence in our country plummets due to the uncertainty that the budget policy – entirely projected on basic income and on the pension advance of 100 rather than on investments – sows uncertainty? In part it explains why the Milan Stock Exchange, which is cheaper than others, is recovering what it lost last year and in part because Piazza Affari is betting on the fact that in the second half of the year the Italian economy could be better of the first months of 2019.
But which are the sectors and which are the blue chips that have traded the most on the Stock Exchange in the first three months of this year? At sector level, the most significant increases were achieved by basic materials (+30,19%), investment banks (+25,10%) and food (+19,16%).
Among the top 40 stocks of the Ftse Mib the pink jersey is Azimut which gained 2019% in 53,2 also thanks to the super-dividend promised to the shareholders and is winning head-to-head with another stock that has been running strongly, also due to the increase in oil prices, namely Saipem which has been gaining 50,3% since the beginning of the year, XNUMX%.
On the podium, behind Azimut and Saipem, Juventus also rose, taking advantage of the Ronaldo effect and the success in the Champions League against Atletico, collecting a 43% increase in the first quarter of 2019.
In fourth place is another stock from the Agnelli-Exor team, Ferrari, which has been up 2019% since the beginning of 34,5.
Behind the first four, Finecobank and Tenaris are tied, both of which are gaining 31,6% and, immediately after, Leonardo, protagonist of a strong recovery in the first part of the year which led it to gain 30% by virtue of the new industrial plan launched by Alessandro Profumo which is obtaining new orders, above all in the helicopter field and is inducing financial analysts to positively change the opinion on the defense and aerospace.
