Piazza Affari (-1.7%) and the other European stock exchanges are in sharp decline. Futures on Wall Street move marginally recovery pending data on the US labor market.
The non-farm payrolls, the new employees, if negative, could reconfirm the expectations of an easing of monetary policy cast into doubt by some Fed bankers. The tensions between Israel and Iran, which pushed crude oil above 90 dollars a barrel on Thursday, continue to worry investors but not oil stocks such as Eni (+1.2%)