The price of gas is highlighted: on the TTF market in Amsterdam, the November future is down sharply: -10.6%, at 101.5 euros per megawatt hour.
However, contracts with delivery in January remain higher, at € 142, a sign, according to some analysts, that the current decline could be due to temporary factors such as high temperatures, full stocks and falling industrial consumption.
On the government bond front, BTP / Bund spreads fell on the first day of the new government with open markets: it is at 229 basis points, 2 less than Friday.
The yield of the ten-year BTP drops to 4.63%, 12 basis points less.
German Bund yield at 2.33%.
On the stock markets, a rising start for the European stock exchanges, after the positive closing on Friday: in Milan + 0.54% for the Ftse Mib index, which rose by more than 1% in the first few minutes of trading.
London against the tide, -0.25%, Francodorte and Paris both + 0.6%.
Above all, the -6.33% of the Hong Kong stock exchange made noise, with technology stocks at the peak: Alibaba -11.14%, Tencent -9.88%.
This despite the data above expectations of Chinese GDP in the third quarter + 3.9%.
Industrial production and above all that of automobiles have risen above expectations.
Retail sales and the real estate sector, on the other hand, were lower than expected.
To weigh is the composition of the new standing committee of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party.
President Xi Jinping has only installed loyalists there and many analysts think that the squeeze on technology companies already put in place over the last year will remain.