The Milan Stock Exchange (-3.4%) slips again, in line with the other European lists.
In Piazza Affari, a flurry of suspensions in a volatility auction for banks.
Among these Unicredit with a theoretical drop of 7%, Mps -6%, Banco Bpm -5.4%, Bper -4.6%.
European stocks slide, with investors looking to the next ECB meeting scheduled for tomorrow.
The evolution of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and any developments for American regional banks will also be in the spotlight.
The Stoxx 600 area index dropped 1.6%, weighed down by the banks (-4.1%).
Among the main price lists, Paris (-2.2%), Madrid (-2.5%), Frankfurt (-1.7%) and London (-1.5%) are in sharp decline.
On the currency front, the euro fell to 1.0671 against the dollar.
Government bond yields are down sharply.
The spread between Btp and Bund rises to 192 points, with the yield on the Italian ten-year bond at 4.18% (-8 basis points).
The rate on the German bund also fell sharply to 2.26% (-14 points).
Those of Spain are also down at 3.36% (-11 points) and that of Greece at 4.22% (-6%).
There was a sharp decline also for two-year bonds with the German bund dropping 26 basis points to 2.59%.
The Italian BTP stands at 3.25% (-10 points).
