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Stellantis aims to double production at Mirafiori in 2026

The group's Europe head announces the target for the Turin plant. Stock up, but the news remains without independent confirmation for now.

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Emanuele Cappellano, Stellantis’s head for Europe, announced that the Mirafiori plant in Turin will produce double the number of vehicles assembled in 2025 during 2026. The statement comes at a delicate time for the Piedmont site, among the group’s most discussed in recent years due to production levels reduced compared to the past.

On the same day, Stellantis shares closed up 2.13% on Piazza Affari. The temporal coincidence between the announcement and the stock movement is not enough on its own to establish a causal link: share prices reflect a multitude of factors in every session — from overall trading in the auto sector to the day’s macroeconomic news — and attributing the entire rise to a single corporate statement would be a stretch that the available data does not support.

It should be noted that, at this time, the news comes from a single source (MilanoFinanza); no independent confirmation is available. It is not known, based on the material circulated so far, whether the doubling target is accompanied by detailed industrial plans, specific investments or hiring timelines, nor whether Stellantis has provided the 2025 production volumes that serve as the basis for comparison. The announcement, as reported, remains a statement of intent by a group executive, not a figure certified by financial statements or official company releases.

Mirafiori is one of Stellantis’s historic plants in Italy, and its production is closely followed by unions, local institutions and industry observers because of its employment weight in the Turin area. A possible doubling of volumes, if confirmed by official corporate sources or verifiable production data, would represent a significant shift compared to the trajectory of recent years.

Fed raises rates to 3.75%-4%, first hike since 2023

The FOMC raised the benchmark rate by 25 basis points; however, the new "dot plot" shows strong divergences among Committee members on the path of rates over the next two years.

The Federal Reserve has raised the benchmark rate by 25 basis points, bringing it to 3.75%-4%. This is the first rate hike by the US central bank since July 2023, a shift from the monetary policy cycle followed up to this point. The news currently comes from a single source, the Federal Reserve itself through its official statement; no independent confirmations are available on the details of the decision.

The decision comes after a core PCE inflation reading that came in above the 2% target set by the central bank, along with mixed signals on the US labor market. The FOMC statement does not report internal Committee reasoning beyond these two cyclical factors, and no further readings are currently available on the choice to act in this context.

On September 16 the Fed also published the new “dot plot,” the chart that gathers individual FOMC members’ projections on the future path of rates. The document shows marked dispersion of views: for the end of 2026 some members indicate the possibility of further hikes, between a quarter and half a percentage point. The projections do not specify whether other members instead expect stabilization within the same horizon. For the end of 2027 the projections of individual Committee members diverge by about one percentage point, a gap that signals the absence of a shared line for the medium term.

This internal divergence within the FOMC signals that, while having acted in unison on September’s decision, the Committee remains divided on the trajectory to follow over the next two years. The next “dot plot,” expected in the following months, will be the first useful reference to check whether the current dispersion among members has narrowed or widened.

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