The price of gas marks minus 16% today, which after four months returns below 100 euros per megawatt hour, to 95.
The current decline could be due to temporary factors such as high temperatures, full stocks and falling industrial consumption.
This on a very positive trading day, despite the negative data of the purchasing managers' indices: in Milan the Ftse Mib index rose by 2.5%.
All 40 stocks in the main basket of the Italian stock exchange are up.
The Federal Reserve could begin to curb its monetary tightening, while for the ECB, analysts are betting on a 0.75% rise.
On the government bond front, BTP / Bund spreads down by 7 basis points, the yield on BTPs drops today by 19 basis points.
The other European markets are also doing well, in particular Paris and Frankfurt up by more than two points, after a two-speed opening on Wall Street: Dow Jones at + 1.41% and Nasdaq almost flat at + 0.15%.