A negative session for all the lists.
The Europeans are worse: Milan is the worst and gives a point and a half, Paris down by 1.35%, Frankfurt -1.10% and London -0.68%.
Markets got heavy right after Wall Street opened: pending the Federal Reserve's decision on interest rate hikes tomorrow, investors are selling.
The Dow Jones lost 1.19% and the Nasdaq 0.89%.
In this context of negative markets, the dollar is considered a safe haven and therefore strengthens: the euro slips below par and is quoted at 0.9975 against the greenback.
Pressure on government bonds.
The spread between the Italian BTP and the German Bund is at 228 basis points, but the yield of our ten-year bonds still grows to 4.22%.
Meanwhile, the Moscow stock exchange collapsed (-6%) after the announcement by the separatists of the self-proclaimed republic of Donbass of a referendum from 23 to 27 September for annexation to Russia.