weak stock markets in Asia due to heightened international tensions, with Iran's drone attack on Israel last Saturday. Tokyo lost 0.74%, Taiwan 1.38%, Seoul 0.42% and Sydney 0.46%.
Futures on Europe, with the exception of London, and on US stock exchanges are positive in the absence of particularly relevant data. Crude oil (WTI -0.6% to 85.15 dollars per barrel) and natural gas (natural gas -1.08% to 40.40 euros per MWh) fell. Gold slipped (-1.63% to 2,358 dollars an ounce), while steel showed little change (-0.06% to 3,616 dollars a ton) The dollar fell to 0.93 euros and 0.8 pounds, the spread between BTPs and German 10-year Bunds rises to 139 points. The Italian yield rising by 1.4 points to 3.76% and the German one by 2.1 points to 2.37%. semiconductors Socionext (-3.88%), Lasertest (-2.59%) and Advantest (- 1.31%) remained unchanged.