(ANSA) - MILAN, 24 FEB - Stock markets of the Old Continent always very heavy after the start of Wall street, which now loses 1.9% with the Dow Jones index and 1.5% with the Nasdaq: the Stock Exchange Milan remains the worst with a drop of nearly five percentage points (Ftse Mib -4.8%), followed by Frankfurt (-4.4%), Paris (-4%) and Madrid, which lost 3.7%.
Down by around three percentage points London and Amsterdam.
In Piazza Affari, always violent sales on Unicredit (which sells 13%), Pirelli (-11%) and Intesa, down by nine points, while Leonardo rebounds by 2.5% on the prospects of the Defense groups.
The BTP-Bund spread remains calm at 174 basis points, with the yield on the Treasury product at 1.88%.
Natural gas on European markets has restarted and rises by 40% to 124 euros per megawatt hour, even if it remains far from the low of 166 euros at the end of last December 21st.
Oil increased by 7-8% compared to the start, the ruble fell by almost 5% against the euro, while the Moscow stock exchange fell between 35 and 40% depending on the different indices.
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