Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Financials, Telecoms and Technology sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 5.18%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MILAN:EMII), which rose 9.46% or 0.680 points to trade at 7.865 at the close. Meanwhile, Intesa Sanpaolo (MILAN:ISP) added 8.22% or 0.244 points to end at 3.212 and STMicroelectronics (MILAN:STM) was up 7.29% or 0.435 points to 6.405 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were World Duty Free SpA (MILAN:WDF), which rose 0.10% or 0.010 points to trade at 10.220 at the close. Pirelli & C (MILAN:PECI) added 0.34% or 0.05 points to end at 14.93 and Ansaldo STS (MILAN:STS) was up 0.48% or 0.04 points to 9.50.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 433 to 33 and 1 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was up 3.29% or 1.26 to $39.50 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 1.93% or 0.82 to hit $43.52 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 1.46% or 16.80 to trade at $1136.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 1.82% to 1.1407, while EUR/GBP fell 1.33% to 0.7268.
The US Dollar Index was up 1.37% at 94.66.