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by Marzio Quaglino 17 July 2020 Eyes on Brussels. Investors are following the developments of a European summit with an uncertain outcome. However, the markets travel in random order.

Milan remains on yesterday's values ​​(+ 0.01%), Paris drops 0.13%, while London and Frankfurt earn half a percentage point. St Microelectronics shines on the Piazza Affari price list (+ 2.15%) after 2 acquisitions. Sales on Atlantia continue (-1.13%).

In the banking sector, the markets react to the decisions of the Antitrust Authority which gave the green light to the public exchange offer launched by Intesa Sanpaolo (-0.78%) on Ubi Banca (+ 1.24%).

On the government securities market, the spread with the German Bunds widened to 166 basis points, with the yield of the 10-year BTP falling slightly to 1.18%.

Among the currencies, the Euro rose against the Dollar with the exchange rate at 1.1428.