Main markets in Europe close mixed

MILAN, Italy.— This Monday, the day in the main European markets was mixed, highlighting the marginal advance of the selective FTSE Italia All-Shar, general index of the Milan Stock Exchange, Italy, which gained 0.02%.

Milan closes with a marginal advance of 0.02%

The Milan Stock Exchange closed this Monday flat, with no variations in its selective index FTSE MIBwhich settled at 33,940.96 points, but with the influential Italian banking sector in positive territory.

For its part, the general index FTSE Italia All-Shar It grew by 0.02%, up to 36,096.92 integers.

During the session, 663 million shares changed hands for a value of 2.62 billion euros.

Among the companies that benefited the most was the banking sector: Banca Popolare Emilia Romagna gained 1.99%, Banca Popolare Sondrio gained 1.94, recently debuted in the selective; Banco Popolare Milano 1.83%, Banca Monte Paschi Siena 1.82% and Unicredit 0.82%.

The defense sector company Leonardo (2.26%), the Diasorin laboratories (1.92%) and Ferrari (1.39%) also won.

On the other hand, they lost the Nexi collection network (3.31%), Iveco trucks (2.54%), the fashion brand Brunello Cucinelli (2.33%), the hearing aid manufacturer Amplifon (2.07%), the energy company Hera (1.90% ), the pharmaceutical company Recordati (1.85%) and the water extractor Interpump Group (1.36%), among others.

The DAX 40 closes with a marginal advance of 0.01%

The main selective of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, the DAX 40closed practically flat this Monday, registering an advance of 0.01% after building permits for housing construction in Germany decreased by 23.5% year-on-year in January.

The DAX 40 reached 17,939.21 points this Monday, after a session in which it once again exceeded 18,000 points, although this mark continues to resist at the close.

For its part, the technological index TecDAX It has advanced 0.15%, up to 3,384.7 points.

During the session, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has confirmed that building permits for residential construction in Germany fell by 23.5% year-on-year in January, when 16,800 permits were granted, 5,200 fewer than a year earlier.

Compared to January 2022, the number of permits, which include both those for the construction of new homes and existing buildings, plummeted by 43.4%.

For its part, the community statistics office, Eurostat, confirmed this Monday the preliminary data published at the beginning of the month, which indicated that inflation in the eurozone moderated by two tenths in February, to 2.6%, while that of the European Union (EU) as a whole fell three tenths, to 2.8%.

In the case of the underlying – which excludes energy and fresh food prices as they are considered more volatile – it fell from 3.3% in January to 3.1% in February.

By company, the session in the German market has been led by the arms company Rheinmetall, which has risen 4.42%; followed by the automobile company Porsche, which has added 3.94%; and the real estate company Vonovia, which has advanced 3.13%.

At the opposite extreme, the sports brand Adidas has been the company that has fallen the most, 2.39%; while the pharmaceutical company Sartorius has lost 1.85% and the postal company DHL has lost 1.49%.

The Spanish stock market closes with a slight drop of 0.01%

The Spanish Stock Market closed this Monday with a slight drop of 0.01%, and is on the verge of 10,600 points, after rising 2.8% in the accumulated value of last week, and before the monetary policy decision of the Federal Reserve American (Fed).

The main selective of the Spanish stock market, the IBEX 35fell 1.2 points, that is 0.01% to 10,596.7 points and in the year it accumulates an increase of 4.9%.

The Stock Market started the session indecisive and later took the bullish path, although in the last part of the day it opted for falls, which it finally softened, while investors await the Fed meeting, which will announce its decision on rates on Wednesday. of interest.

Among the large values, Repsol rose 1.43%; Santander, 0.49% and Iberdrola, 0.05%.

On the contrary, Telefónica fell 0.49%; BBVA, 0.29% and Inditex, 0.22%.

The London Stock Exchange drops 0.06%

The London Stock Exchange fell 0.06% this Monday awaiting decisions on interest rates this week by the Bank of Japan, the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England in the United Kingdom.

The main London index, the FTSE-100fell 4.87 points to 7,722.55 points, while the secondary one, the FTSE-250, fell 0.14% to 19,486.53 units.

Investors in the London market were cautious on a day in which the fund manager Phoenix Group led the losses, with a decline of 4.50%.

It was followed by mobile phone group Vodafone, which was down 3.61%, and telecommunications company BT Group, which finished 3.59% lower.

Among the winners were the insurer Beazley, which rose 2.97%; the tobacco company British American Tobacco, which advanced 2.5%; and the multinational consumer goods company Reckitt, which gained 1.98%.

Paris gives up 0.20%

Indecisive for much of the session, the Paris Stock Exchange ended up leading to losses during the afternoon, despite the positive opening of Wall Street, which this time did not influence the Parisian market, whose selective CAC-40 0.20% was left.

While waiting for the monetary statistics expected during the week, French investors signed a day of low activity, 2.3 billion euros, which ended up placing the reference indicator at 8,148.14, after having chained several historical records.

Once again it could be thought that it would hit the curve, which reached close to 8,200 points, before deflating in the final stretch.

The industrial Thales was the most celebrated with a rise of 1.33%, ahead of the real estate company Unibail, which rose 1.29%, and the military equipment manufacturer Dassault with an advance of 1.00%.

At the other extreme was the business services group Teleperformance, with a fall of 2.43%, while the beverage and liquor giant Pernod Ricard fell 1.65%.

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