Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Travel & Leisure, Chemicals and Utilities sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 gained 0.61% to hit a new 52-week high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU), which rose 3.09% or 0.72 points to trade at 24.00 at the close. Campari (MI:CPRI) added 3.03% or 0.32 points to end at 10.87 and Banco Bpm (MI:BAMI) was up 2.13% or 0.058 points to 2.778 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Leonardo SpA (MI:LDOF), which lost 1.34% or 0.180 points to trade at 13.290 in late trade. Saipem (MI:SPMI) declined 1.25% or 0.0054 points to end at 0.4255 and Unipol Gruppo Finanziario Spa (MI:UNPI) shed 0.51% or 0.020 points to 3.876.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 183 to 154 and 24 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 0.22% or 0.11 to $50.46 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.38% or 0.20 to hit $53.33 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to trade at $1245.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.15% to 1.0692, while EUR/GBP fell 0.39% to 0.8529.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.24% at 100.21.