Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Financials, Oil & Gas and Travel & Leisure sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 declined 1.76%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Recordati (MI:RECI), which rose 1.21% or 0.35 points to trade at 29.36 at the close. Salvatore Ferragamo (MI:SFER) added 0.76% or 0.16 points to end at 21.22 and Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA (MI:BMPS) was up 0.58% or 0.0018 points to 0.3100 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Unicredit (MI:CRDI), which lost 9.40% or 0.2060 points to trade at 1.9860 in late trade. Banca Popolare Milano (MI:PMII) declined 6.22% or 0.0270 points to end at 0.4070 and UBI Banca (MI:UBI) shed 6.20% or 0.1700 points to 2.5740.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 262 to 124 and 30 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was down 3.82% or 1.59 to $40.01 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 3.54% or 1.54 to hit $41.99 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.11% or 1.45 to trade at $1358.95 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.04% to 1.1170, while EUR/GBP rose 0.14% to 0.8459.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.12% at 95.64.