European bags archive the last session of the week in the name ofcaution, with most of the price lists who have closed around the equality. The weekly performance remains anyway positive with earnings over 2% except London which substantially closes aThe levels of a week ago.
Bags, cautious week
Week characterized by the new duties announced by the president aMericano Trump who have partially cooled the investors of investors. It was also week of quarterly: they presented the accounts in the US McDonalds, Coca-Cola and Cisco, while in Europe it was the turn among others of Hermes, Nestlè, Unicredit, BP, Kering, Siemens, Unilever and Essilor. The EU then announced the will to mobilize 200 billion euros of investments in the AI, Thanks to the “largest public-private partnership in the world for the development of reliable artificial intelligence”. “We want Europe to be one of the leading continents. And this means embracing a lifestyle in which AI is everywhere. Too often I hear that Europe is late in this race, while the United States and China are already ahead. I disagree“, Said the president Ursula von der Leyen.
The macroeconomic scenario
The week opened with the DATi on the inflation that accelerates in the units statesJanuary, fueling the hypotheses among the insiders of a rating cutting by the Federal Reserve, in December and, therefore, no longer in September as previously proposed.
In detail, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), consumer prices recorded a 0.5% increase on a monthly basis, after +0.4% of the previous month and higher than +0.3% expected by analysts. On an annual basis, the growth of inflation was 3%, increasing compared to 2.9% of the previous month and expected by the Consensus. The hearing at the Congress of the President of the Fed, Jerome Powell. “The economy is overall strong and has made significant progress towards our goals in the last two years. The conditions of the labor market have rfoolish compared to their previous overheated state and remain solid. Inflation has approached our long -term goal of 2%, although it remains in some way high. We are attentive to the risks on both sides of our mandate, “explained Powell.
The weekly performance of bags
A look at the weekly performance highlights that the best list was that of Frankfurt with a profit of 2.79%. Milan also goodwith the FTSE MIB index to the advantage of just over 2%, despite the opaque performance of the banking sector still struggling with the sector Risiko. Brussels also advances that looked over two and a half points percentages. In positive territory, Paris also earns just over 2 percentage points. Practically motionless instead London which closes the week with +0.06%. Looking at the American indexes, however, performance contrasted with the Dow Jones that faces the last day of negotiation in slight contraction and the Nasdaq which instead travels towards a slight rise.
The best and worst in Piazza Affari
The best in Piazza Affari is Iveco chand closes the week with a powerful +33.99% after the publication of the 2024 accounts – which highlighted revenues of 15.29 billion euros and a net profit Adjusted adThe 569 million – and the news that the Iveco Group’s board is evaluating to separate, in 2025, the Business Defence which includes the Idv and Astra brands and the related activities, through a spin off. The protagonist of the week also Unicredit who beat the estimates and closed 2024 with a net accounting useful that reached 9.7 billion, up 2% year on year, and net revenues growing 4% to 24.2 billion , driven by commissions equal to 8.1 billion (+8%). The CEO Andrea Orcel then made it known that a relaunch of the offer for Banco BPM is not excluded. Finally, it was also the week of Tim whose board first given the ok to the offer of the MEF and Retelit which enhances Sparkle 700 million euros, and then published the counts of 2024 announcing that thanks to the generation of cash provided by the new strategic plan, the lever will be further reduced and the remuneration of the shareholders will be resumed, while maintaining financial flexibility and a solid structure of the capital.
