The European stock exchanges are showing nervousness and oscillate between parity and negative territory, with the exception of
Piazza Affari (-2%)
which remains heavy with the crisis of the Draghi government.
The lists of the Old Continent are awaiting the decisions of the ECB which will announce the rate hike and the anti-spread shield.
On the currency front, the euro against the dollar rose slightly to 1.0206.
The stoxx 600 area index fell 0.2%.
In decline London (-0.4%), Frankfurt (-0.3%), Paris (-0.2%), Madrid (-0.4%).
The lists are weighed down by utilities (-1.1%), while the price of gas continues to decline with the restart of the flows of the Nord Stream.
In Amsterdam, the price drops to 151 euros per megawatt hour with a decrease of 2.3%.
Negative performance also for energy (-0.9%), with the price of oil falling.
The WTI drops to 98 dollars a barrel (-1%) and the Brent to 106 dollars (-0.8%).
Banks are also bad (-0.9%) with the tensions of government bonds.
With the crisis of the Draghi government
, the spread
between BTP and Bund has risen up to 232 points, with a jump of 19 points compared to yesterday's closing, before falling back to 220 points.
High tension also on the yield of the Italian ten-year which reached 3.58%, reaching the levels of last June, before falling to 3.5% but remaining far above the rates of Greek bonds.
On the raw materials front, gold fell to 1,689 dollars an ounce, at the lowest level of the last twelve months