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by Chiara Rancati
18 August 2021The European stock exchanges open on the threshold of parity.
Milan just below -0.10%;
up by a few hundredths of a point in Paris and Frankfurt.
The Asian stock exchanges, on the other hand, rose more clearly, after days of very marked drops, with rebounds between 4 and 9 tenths of a point.
The shock of the fall of Afghanistan has passed, waiting to understand what the consequences will be on regional and global balances.
But above all, the New Zealand Central Bank has surprisingly decided to postpone the interest rate hike that operators had been anticipating for days.
Because the country is in lockdown again, even if only for three days, and the time didn't seem right.
The price of oil also rebounds on the wave: Brent is moving away from the threshold of 69 dollars a barrel, which yesterday it had broken down several times, and jumps to 69.6. The dollar, which yesterday hit a nine-month high against the euro, is holding back its pace: the single currency recovers to 1.1722.