Milan, down by more than 1%, recovers the price of oil

2021-08-17T10:24:38.717Z

The Milan stock exchange accelerates downwards, losing 1.02% in the middle of the session. Smaller losses for Frankfurt (-0.26%) and Paris (-0.50%), while London turned just above par. Eurostat data on the gross domestic product of the Eurozone in the second half of the year, which recorded + 2% on a short-term basis and + 13.6% on an annual basis, were not enough to raise the price lists. Italy, in particular, is growing more than the average with an economic + 2.7%, second only to Spain. Among the stocks, in Piazza Affari in the middle of the session, bankers fell more sharply. Sector index down by 1.72%, Unicredit and Bper Banca, worse than the Ftse Mib list, lost more than 2%. While after a sharp drop at the start of the day, the price of oil recovers: Brent, which in the morning had fallen below 69 dollars a barrel, now rises to 69.29,just below yesterday's level. Effect of the news, released by the Reuters agency citing confidential sources, according to which OPEC would not intend to accelerate the pace of the increase in crude oil production, as had instead requested by the American administration.