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Iraq's invasion of Kuwait helped the downward movement that started in July when the MIB fell by 3.1 per cent after registering advances in four successive months.
The stock exchange will finally launch a futures contract on the revamped MIB 30 index of the biggest Italian stocks in the week beginning November 28. Analysts expect this to improve the liquidity of the underlying market.
This would be 6% above its level at the beginning of the year, but down about four percentage points from its 1990 high of 1113 reached on June 14. The MIB closed at 1065 Friday after a weak session.