Piazza Affari exceeds the worsening mid-day mark: in a climate already heavy on all European stock exchanges, it remains the worst.
Even on political tensions, the Milan price list drops 2.5%, followed by Madrid which loses 1.6%.
The other stock exchanges of the Old Continent seem to be waiting for US data, including producer prices and jobless claims.
Paris and Frankfurt lost 1.1%, London 0.8% and Amsterdam 0.2%.
In Piazza Affari always badly Tim which loses 4.5% and A2a and Hera down by more than four percentage points.
The banks on the rise in the spread and the strong tension on government bonds, with Banco Bpm falling by 4.9%, Intesa by 4.4% and Unicredit by four points.