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by Fabrizio Patti

28 May 2021


Quiet weekend for Piazza Affari.

+ 0.1%, the weekly balance is up by about half a point, the monthly one about +4 percent.



Brighter stock exchanges in the rest of Europe, especially the Frankfurt index, + 0.58%.

And on a continental level, the Eurostoxx 600 index (+ 0.45%) updates the all-time high.



They are still the effects of the news that arrived yesterday from the United States.

The decline in new weekly claims for unemployment benefits.

406 thousand, the minimum since the start of the pandemic.

And the Biden administration's anticipated 2022 fiscal budget is expected to be $ 6 trillion, the highest figure since World War II.



The futures on Wall Street indices are also positive today, in particular that on the Dow Jones (+ 0.5%). 



Among the stocks in Piazza Affari there are two financials: Cattolica Assicurazioni, + 11.95%, after the publication of the quarterly data. + 7% for Mps, on the hypothesis of bank risk. For days there has been talk of a stew, in which the branches in the North would go to Unicredit, those in the Center South to Medio Credito Centrale.



After the coaches' waltz, the Lazio title drops (-0.87%), almost unchanged that of Juventus. Roma's new rise, + 6%, in May the title rose by more than 80%, it is the effect of the arrival of the coach Mourinho.



Spread BTP / Bund stable at 111, on the day when the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that after the green light of all 27 Member States, the EU is ready to go to the markets to obtain the funds by Next Generation Eu. 



Meanwhile, the 10-year BTP Treasury has placed them for 3.5 billion euros. The yield was 0.94%, 6 basis points higher than the previous issue.