Stock exchanges, Wall Street closes higher with optimism on truce. Milan snatches +0.5%
Oil is back to $100 a barrel, while US GDP rose only 0.5% in the fourth quarter of 2025. On the Milan stock market, oil stocks did well. Purchases also on Leonardo with rumours of Mariani as new CEO.
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(Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) - Wall Street closed the session in positive territory, in spite of fears linked to the truce between the United States and Iran, which turned out to be very precarious when the facts were put to the test: the Dow Jones rose 0.58%, to 48,185.80 points, while the Nasdaq climbed 0.83% to 22,822.42 points. The S&P 500 also rose, to 6,824.66 points (+0.62%). US indices, after a negative opening, turned positive and oil prices edged up from the day's highs after Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said the country had agreed to direct negotiations with Lebanon.
The fragile truce in Iran, on the other hand, fails to reassure European equities, which after yesterday's rebound have returned to the brakes due to fears about the durability of the ceasefire between the Islamic Republic and the United States. Awaiting the start of peace talks in Pakistan, the knot of the Strait of Hormuz remains in the spotlight, of which US President Donald Trump has called for an immediate reopening without the imposition of tolls of any kind.
On the macroeconomic front, meanwhile, data from the United States showed that the US economy grew less than initially estimated in the fourth quarter of 2025, while inflation in February remained strong, albeit in line with expectations, before the likely increase due to the war. Traders therefore await the release of the March consumer price index, scheduled for Friday, which will begin to register the impact of the recent energy shock.
Returning to the Old Continent's stock exchanges, the best performance of the day was that recorded by Piazza Affari, where the FTSE MIB snatched a close above par thanks to purchases on oil stocks, buoyed by crude oil returning to USD 100 per barrel.
US GDP slows to +0.5% in Q4
In the US, as mentioned, the economy slowed down considerably in the fourth quarter of 2025. According to the figure released by the Commerce Department, the US gross domestic product grew by 0.5 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to the final reading. Expectations were for a confirmation of 0.7 per cent in the second reading, after 1.5 per cent in the preliminary reading. In the third quarter, GDP had risen by 4.4 per cent.
