Italy - Factors to watch on June 17

Macquarie

17/06/2026 05:01

The following factors could affect Italian markets on Wednesday.

        Reuters has not verified the newspaper reports, and cannot vouch for their accuracy. New items are marked with (*).
        
ECONOMY
Italy's business lobby Confindustria has called for emergency action from the government to speed up the roll-out of renewable energy in the country, which is grappling with much higher power costs than in most of Europe.

COMPANIES
UNICREDIT CRDI.MI
Italy's second-biggest bank said that shares tendered under its Commerzbank bid stood at 12.41% at the usual 1200 GMT cut-off on Tuesday.  
This gives UniCredit an overall holding of 42.4% of the German lender.  

(*) BFF GROUP BFF.MI, BANCO BPM BAMI.MI
Italy's Banco BPM and state-owned bad loan manager AMCO are studying a plan to stabilise BFF Bank under which the public servicer would take over the factoring servicing arm, while Banco BPM would acquire payments and depositary activities, MF daily reported on Wednesday. It added that the proposal would effectively split BFF's business lines as part of efforts to shore up the lender, with a supervisory decision pending.

(*) LEONARDO LDOF.MI 
Italy's government has given conditional approval to the joint venture between the state-controlled defence group Leonardo and Turkey's Baykar to produce unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a source told Reuters on Wednesday.

(*) MAIRE MTCM.MI
The Italian engineering group said on Wednesday its unit Nextchem was awarded a licensing agreement for a biomass-to-syngas section of a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in Canada. 

(*) DIASORIN DIAS.MI 
Deutsche Bank cut the rating of the medical diagnostics group to 'sell' from 'hold' and cut the target price to €58 euros from €62.  

(*) AEFFE AEF.MI 
Aeffe's Moschino creative director Davide Appiolaza has left his position at the fashion house, with former Sunnei founders Loris Messina and Simone Rizzo seen as frontrunners to replace him, MF daily reported on Wednesday. The move is part of a broader restructuring at Aeffe, tied to a potential sale of the group to private equity fund Oxy Capital, the report added.

(*) FILA  FILA.MI
The Italian stationery maker said on Wednesday it placed over 4.2 million shares, or 7%, of India's DOMS, through an accelerated bookbuilding it had announced on Tuesday, raising the equivalent of about €85.26 million.       

M&A, SAC
The operator of Sicily's Catania airport said on Tuesday it had received 14 expressions of interest in buying a majority stake in the company. Sources close to the situation told Reuters that Australia's Macquarie MQG.AX, Italian investment fund F2i and infrastructure group Mundys are among the companies who have expressed interest. 
            
(*) IPO - ILLYCAFFE 
The Italian premium coffee maker is set to list on the New York bourse by the end of the year or at the latest in the first quarter of 2027, La Stampa reported on Wednesday. With support from three financial advisors, the group is monitoring the most suitable market conditions for its debut, the daily added, citing financial and legal sources close to the matter. 

DIARY 
Rome, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi hosts a meeting with counterparts from Greece, Cyprus and Malta focused on implementation of the new EU asylum rules.
Rome, Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa attends a parliamentary hearing. (1145 GMT)    

        
  
For Italian market data and news, click on codes in
brackets:
20 biggest gainers (in percentage).............PG.MI
20 biggest losers (in percentage)..............PL.MI
FTSE IT allshare index .FTITLMS
FTSE Mib index........ .FTMIB
FTSE Allstars index... .FTSTAR
FTSE Mid Cap index.... .FTITMC
Stories on Italy...... IT-LEN

For pan-European market data and news, click on codes in
brackets:
European Equities speed guide...................EUR/EQUITY
FTSEurofirst 300 index...............................FTEU3
DJ STOXX index.......................................STOXX
Top 10 STOXX sectors............................PGL.STOXXS
Top 10 EUROSTOXX sectors.......................PGL.STOXXES
Top 10 Eurofirst 300 sectors....................PGL.FTEU3S
Top 25 European pct gainers........................PG.PEUR
Top 25 European pct losers.........................PL.PEUR

Main stock markets:
Dow Jones................DJI Wall Street report ......N
Nikkei 225..............N225 Tokyo report.............T
FTSE 100................FTSE London report............L
Xetra DAX..............GDAXI Frankfurt market stories.F
CAC-40..................FCHI Paris market stories....PA
World Indices.....................................0#.INDEX
Reuters survey of world bourse outlook.........EQUITYPOLL1
Western European IPO diary..........................WEUIPO
European Asset Allocation........................EUR/ASSET
Reuters News at a Glance: Equities...............TOP/EQE
Main currency report:...............................FRX/