European stock markets up sharply pushed by records on Wall Street

2020-08-19T16:01:07.987Z

Record session still in the start for Wall Street. New highs for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq, the technology market, which also celebrates Apple which reaches the super capitalization of two trillion dollars. The European stock exchanges took advantage and Milan, the best in Europe, closed with a + 1.06%. The progress of London, Frankfurt and Paris is under one percent. In Piazza Affari, bank stocks did well with Banco Bpm at + 2.82%, while outside the main basket, Banca Mps gained 5.99%. Markets attentive to the first day of the OPEC + meeting, the association of oil producing countries. The North Sea Brent is back above $ 45 a barrel, close to the highs of the last 5 months.