Positive Piazza Affari, money on UniCredit

Despite the weakness of the industrial sector, the Piazza Affari session closed with a plus sign. In the aftermath of Minister Franco’s hearing, UniCredit finished with + 2.54% and MPS posted + 4.85%. Enel was also in the spotlight (+ 0.64%), which yesterday signed an agreement with CDP Equity for the sale of a further 10% of the share capital of Open Fiber for 530 million euros. Thanks to this operation, CDPE becomes the main shareholder of Open Fiber with a total stake of 60% of the capital. Also yesterday, Macquarie and Enel signed an agreement for the purchase by Macquarie of the remaining 40% of Open Fiber from Enel.After the recent losses, the top performer of the blue chip list, which stopped at 25,665.55 points (+ 0.69%), went to Ferrari shares (+ 3.34%) while, thanks to a recovery in the final, Stellantis and CNH Industrial respectively closed in parity (-0.02%) and with an increase of 0.21%. Tenaris is down (-0.35%) after the release of the quarterly accounts: the company has seen the profit settle at 290 million dollars, from -50 of a year ago. Perfect parity for Interpump, which saw the last line of the income statement go from 30.2 to 74.5 million, and BPER Banca. The bank closed the first half with a net profit of € 501.8 million, up from € 102.5 million a year earlier. The BTP-Bund spread ended at 106 basis points, more than 3 percentage points less than to the previous figure. (In collaboration with money.it).