European markets positive
(Teleborsa) - Europe's major markets are trading in positive territory. Piazza Affari is also bullish.EUR / USD holds its position at 1.068. Gold trades up, advancing to 2,378.1 dollars per ounce. Light Sweet Crude Oil has a weak session, trading -0.08% lower.
The Spread is at +141 basis points, near the previous day's level, while the ten-year BTP settles at +3.83%.
Among the European indices, Frankfurt performs modestly, showing a moderate +0.28% rise, resilient London registers a small increase of 0.60%, and Paris advances +0.61%.
The Milanese bourse edges up as the FTSE MIB rises +0.44% to 33,781 points; similarly, the FTSE Italia All-Share nudges up to 35,918 points.
The FTSE Italia Mid Cap holds previous levels (+0.14%); on the same trend direction, the FTSE Italia Star trades sideways (-0.08%).
MPS Bank (+1.74%), Banca Mediolanum (+1.50%), Enel (+1.49%) and Bper (+1.34%) among the best performing blue chips in Piazza Affari.
Saipem sees the heaviest sell-offs, now trading -1.37% lower.
Stmicroelectronics is sluggish, declining marginally (-1.03%).
Leonardo is modestly down, shedding -0.94%.
DiaSorin drifts -0.73% lower.
MFE B (+7.19%), MFE A (+6.75%), OVS (+6.51%) and Anima Holding (+1.68%) are among the big players in the FTSE Italia Mid Cap index.
D'Amico has the worst performance, with a -1.71% down.
Technoprobe plunges -1.61% on intense selling.
Philogen totters along with a modest -1.1% decline.
A sluggish day for Juventus, which drops -0.81%.
Among the macroeconomic rendez-vous that might have high influence on the markets:
Thursday, 4/18/2024
6:30 AM Japan: services index, monthly (expected 0.8%; prev. -0.5%)
2:30 PM USA: Philly FED manufacturing activity index (expected 1.5 points; prev. 3.2 points)
2:30 PM USA: initial jobless claims, weekly (expected 215K units; prev. 211K units)
4:00 PM USA: leading indicator, monthly (expected -0.1%; prev. 0.1%)
4:00 PM USA: existing home sales (expected 4.2 Mln units; prev. 4.38 Mln units)
4:00 PM USA: existing home sales, monthly (prev. 9.5%)
Friday, 4/19/2024
1:30 AM Japan: consumer price index, yearly (prev. 2.8%).
(Teleborsa) 04-18-2024 09:30 AM