Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Telecoms, Technology and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 declined 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were ENI (MI:ENI), which rose 3.72% or 0.53 points to trade at 14.78 at the close. Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA (MI:BMPS) added 3.69% or 0.7200 points to end at 20.2200 and Saipem (MI:SPMI) was up 2.92% or 0.0127 points to 0.4478 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Unicredit (MI:CRDI), which lost 3.04% or 0.0760 points to trade at 2.4240 in late trade. Italgas SpA (MI:IG) declined 2.61% or 0.09 points to end at 3.43 and Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU) shed 2.31% or 0.52 points to 22.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 170 to 155 and 24 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 3.24% or 1.67 to $53.17 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 3.11% or 1.69 to hit $56.02 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 0.43% or 5.05 to trade at $1166.95 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.78% to 1.0638, while EUR/GBP fell 0.26% to 0.8379.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.60% at 100.99.