Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Industrials and Utilities sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 0.54%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were CNH Industrial NV (MI:CNHI), which rose 6.30% or 0.410 points to trade at 6.920 at the close. Tenaris (MI:TENR) added 5.02% or 0.5800 points to end at 12.1400 and Banca Popolare Milano (MI:PMII) was up 3.17% or 0.0153 points to 0.4977 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banco Popolare (MI:BAPO), which lost 22.05% or 0.8720 points to trade at 3.0820 in late trade. Leonardo Finmeccanica SpA (MI:LDOF) declined 2.12% or 0.215 points to end at 9.935 and Unicredit (MI:CRDI) shed 1.90% or 0.0500 points to 2.5860.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 232 to 155 and 18 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was up 1.77% or 0.86 to $49.48 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August rose 1.43% or 0.71 to hit $50.35 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 0.19% or 2.35 to trade at $1245.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.10% to 1.1356, while EUR/GBP rose 0.38% to 0.7859.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.13% at 94.02.