Mercati with suspended breath, in fear that the war of duties unleashed by Donald Trump can overwhelm the global economy and make it fall into a recession that would bring the clock back years. Those darkness of the 2008 crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers or the earthquake caused by the pandemic. The immediate fear is that of another week of passion for world bags, after between Thursday and Friday from Asia to Europe and the United States, billions of dollars were burned: almost 2,000 billion went to smoke in the old continent, about 5,000 billion at Wall Street. Among the worst performances that of the Milan Stock Exchange, with the FTSE MIB index that left 3.6% on Thursday and 6.5% on Friday on the ground, coming to give in to the last day of negotiations of the week over 7% as happened in one of the major collapses ever recorded in Piazza Affari, on September 11, 2001, the day of the attack on the twin towers. Although several analysts expect a rebound, skepticism reign.
The Saudi bag, also open on Sunday, finished the day of contracted with a thud of 6.8%, recording the worst decrease since Covid’s time: the fear is that it is a premonitory sign of what will happen in the next few days. The hope of investors is that negotiations are opened between the Trump administration and the rest of the world to try to insert reverse. But the road to dialogue for a de -Escalation – starting from that between the United States and the European Union – appears long and tortuous, with the expectations that are for a period characterized rather by great uncertainty and very high volatility on the markets. A picture that can only harm the economy and world growth, with the chances of stagnation, if not of real global recession, increasingly high. To make business expenses and jobs. And from an SWG survey published on the Sole 24 Ore it emerges as four out of ten Italians fear for their pockets, convinced that the current commercial war will have repercussions on its economic condition. A percentage that in the South rises to 61%.