Stock market: Europe slides awaiting Wall Street, Milan (-1%) contains losses

Strong sales remain on European stock markets, which turn the mid-session mark, still largely negative.

The worst stock market is that of Frankfurt, which lost 2.2%, followed by London, which fell by two percentage points. Paris (-1.6%) and Amsterdam (-1.2%) were heavy, with Madrid and Milan trying to contain the declines and recording a drop of around one percentage point.

Futures on the start of Wall Street, especially on the hi-tech stocks that drove yesterday's slide, always fluctuate around parity with a slight positive tone. And therefore for the Nasdaq index.

In the energy sector, gas confirms its decline and drops 3% to 88 euros per megawatt hour, while oil moves calmly at 90 dollars a barrel.

Without major changes, government bonds with the BTP-Bund spread at 109 euros, with the euro confirming the drop of 0.4% to 1.117 against the dollar.

With operators also starting to look at the ECB's next choices, in Piazza Affari among the stocks with the highest capitalization Nexi suffered a decline of 3.8%, Generali of three percentage points and Banco Bpm of 2.7% after the accounts released yesterday after the markets were closed.

Unipol was also weak (-2.6%), while Mps was reduced by 0.7% after the quarterly report. Technoprobe and STM, on the other hand, did well, recovering 2.5% and 2.6% after the heavy declines the day before.