Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Travel & Leisure, Telecoms and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 added 0.61%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MI:EMII), which rose 3.33% or 0.146 points to trade at 4.536 at the close. Poste Italiane SpA (MI:PST) added 3.19% or 0.200 points to end at 6.475 and UBI Banca (MI:UBI) was up 3.19% or 0.1020 points to 3.3000 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tenaris (MI:TENR), which lost 3.16% or 0.48 points to trade at 14.70 in late trade. STMicroelectronics (MI:STM) declined 2.70% or 0.400 points to end at 14.390 and Saipem (MI:SPMI) shed 2.67% or 0.0111 points to 0.4047.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 188 to 157 and 13 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 2.43% or 1.22 to $49.06 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 2.26% or 1.20 to hit $51.91 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.46% or 5.55 to trade at $1203.85 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.42% to 1.0585, while EUR/GBP rose 0.45% to 0.8702.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.20% at 101.91.