(ANSA) – MILAN, 07 FEB – The main European stock exchanges improve towards the end of the session, while Milan remains negative (-1.1%), where the BTP-Bund spread is at 158 points, with the Italian ten-year yield at 1.834 %. In Europe, the best squares are Frankfurt and Paris (+ 1%), followed by London (+ 0.9%) and Madrid (+ 0.2%), with investors looking above all at central bank interest rate trends, with in the background, the geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine and the developments of the pandemic from Covid 19. Gold rose slightly (+ 0.3%) to 1,816 dollars an ounce, but among metals above all iron (+3.3 %) to $ 839.5 per ton The Old Continent area index, Stoxx 600, rises to over 0.8% in earnings, driven by IT and finance, together with the health sector. Real estate investments and especially utilities are bad, while gas futures in Europe are down, with prices in Amsterdam (-3.9%) at € 79.4 per MWh.
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