Stock exchanges, with today's collapse Piazza Affari has lost 25,7% since the beginning of 2011

By now the great collapses of the Stock Exchanges and in particular of Piazza Affari are no longer surprising. But today's crash (-5,8%) is among the most conspicuous in recent times even if lower than that of last week's Black Wednesday (-6,6%). Today's heavy crash causes the Milan stock exchange to lose – FtseMIB index – more than 25% since the beginning of the year and to fall below the psychological threshold of 15.000 basis points. Only the Star segment loses a little less (-17,4 .8%) as well as the Micro cap segment (-XNUMX%).
The big ones in the banking and industrial sector are above all the ones who bear the brunt of today's heavy cuts. The black jersey is Molmed (-13,5%) due to the sales that followed yesterday's boom (over 30%). But the leading stock that paid the most for the black day was Fiat Industrial, which lost 13,3%. Socgen is also doing badly, as in France, losing 12,8% today, followed by Fondiaria-Sai and Fiat. Stocks are on the rise, for which a few purchases are enough to elicit spectacular surges, not always motivated by fundamentals but often with a strong speculative content: Arkmedica gains 13,2%, Borgosesia 7,8%, while in third place is Lazio of Lotito with a leap of 5,4%.