Piazza Affari attempts the annual record one hour after the closing, but in the end reduces the gains and stops at 22.793 points, +0,18%. Queen of the list is Cnh, +5,48%, which reaches an all-time high of 10,97 euros per share, thanks to a good quarterly performance and the improvement in annual estimates. Ferrari also updates its highs, +1,98%, 102,90 euros per share, before the accounts, expected on Thursday. The banks remain in the red, with Unicredit, -1,68%, in the black jersey, the worst blue chip of the session.
Madrid's march, +0,74%, which seems to have closed the Catalan crisis, does not stop, even if Carles Puigdemont is trying to arouse European interest after his flight to Brussels. The separatist leader claims that he is not asking for asylum, but would like a fair trial by the judiciary, while he accepts new elections. Closed for holidays Frankfurt; pretty good Paris, +018% and London, +0,07%.
Wall Street opens higher, with consumer confidence at a 17-year high. Investors toasting a series of quarterly results beyond expectations, from Mastercard to Mondelez, while the Nasdaq hits a new record a few hours after opening. Attention remains high on the Fed, both for the monetary policy decisions, expected tomorrow, at the end of the current meeting, even if a rate hike is not expected before the December meeting, and for the appointment of the new governor by by Donald Trump. The most quoted at the moment is Jerome Powell, a member of the board of the American central bank since 2012. The euro-dollar exchange rate is stable (1,164), steps forward for Brent at 60,77 dollars a barrel, +0,3%; nervous gold, -0,54%, 1269,35 dollars an ounce.
Positive session for Italian paper, with the 1,83-year yield at 0,41% and the spread with the Bund down by 146.10% to 5 basis points. Furthermore, the interest of specialists in the reopening of the auctions of 10 and 2025-year BTPs and of the new April 1,8 Ccteu was very strong, with the assignment of the maximum amount offered on all three securities, for a total amount of XNUMX .XNUMX billion euros.
In Piazza Affari, Mediaset shines +2,4%; Exor +1,76%; A2a +1,58%. Financials are at the bottom of the list: Unicredit, Intesa -0,89%, Mediobanca -0,74%; Unipolsai -0,86. Banca Carige suffers, -2,24%, on the day of the preliminary agreement for the sale of the headquarters in Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, in Milan, for 107,5 million euros, profits from the capital strengthening plan for around one billion. Benefits taken on Stm. -0,69%.
