Piazza Affari still in red. The US markets open positively

2021-05-25T04:15:52.636Z

The positive opening of the overseas stock exchanges does not change the trend on the European markets. In Milan, the Ftse Mib index lost 0.73%. London and Paris are moving just below par, while Frankfurt is closed for holidays. The performance of the Milanese stock market is particularly affected by a technical maturity, that of the ex-dividend date, which pushes some important stocks down sharply, including Generali and Unipol, both down by more than 4%. All positive, however, the American indices: The Dow Jones gains 0.45%, even better the Nasdaq, with an increase of almost one percentage point. On the raw materials front, it is at least partially slowing down the run in metal prices: gold continues to rise at 1,884.5 dollars an ounce, while copper is back below 10,000 dollars a ton.The spread between BTP and German Bund was stable, at 116 basis points, with the yield on Italian ten-year bonds at 1.04%.