Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 lost 0.37%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Banca Popolare Milano (MI:PMII), which rose 4.91% or 0.0315 points to trade at 0.6730 at the close. Unicredit (MI:CRDI) added 2.32% or 0.0840 points to end at 3.7000 and A2A (MI:A2) was up 2.20% or 0.023 points to 1.070 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP), which lost 5.19% or 1.39 points to trade at 25.41 in late trade. Saipem (MI:SPMI) declined 3.91% or 0.0146 points to end at 0.3589 and Moncler SpA (MI:MONC) shed 3.69% or 0.58 points to 15.12.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 241 to 171 and 21 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 1.38% or 0.53 to $37.76 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 2.48% or 1.02 to hit $40.05 a barrel, while the April Gold contract rose 1.02% or 12.80 to trade at $1270.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 1.74% to 1.1191, while EUR/GBP rose 0.85% to 0.7818.
The US Dollar Index was down 1.14% at 96.08.