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by Fabrizio Patti 09 April 2020 The Eurogroup, the video conference of OPEC oil producers plus Russia, the new data on the requests for unemployment benefits in the United States. All the main financial events of this last day of the week for the stock exchanges, before the Easter holidays, will all be in the afternoon. On the night, stock market indices in Asia rose slightly with the exception of Tokyo, just below parity (-0.04%) after three consecutive hikes. Yesterday on Wall Street + 3.4% for the Dow Jones, which reduced the drop from the beginning of the year to 17% and recovered 23% from the negative peak. The contagion curve from Covid-19 is always under observation. On the political front, Bernie Sanders withdrew from the Democratic primary yesterday, the candidate will be Joe Biden. When applications for unemployment benefits, in the last two weekly surveys, applications in the United States went from 280 thousand to over 6 million. Exploit for the Disney title: + 6.96% after the first subscription data for the new Disney + streaming service. In Milan the Ftse Mib marks + 1.83%. London + 2.34%, Frankfurt + 2.10%, Paris + 1.95%. Among the main sectors, the main advances are for banks and industrialists: + 2% for the Ftse All Share indices of both sectors. The ABI, the Association of Italian Banks, with a circular circulated this morning to all the members, "immediately provided the banks with timely information" of the decree on guarantees to companies, just published in the Official Journal. The circular - reads a note - illustrates the main provisions on which Abi "draws the utmost attention and the immediate implementation of the members, given the extreme need and urgency to give immediate application by the banks". Among the securities, increases of over 3% for FCA, Mediobanca and StMicroelectronics. The only negative security of Ftse Mib Buzzi Unicem, -0.75%. The Btp / Bund spread yesterday closed at 200 basis points, opening up to 213, then returning to 203, with a 10-year BTP yield at 1.74%.