Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Healthcare, Industrials and Utilities sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 0.28%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU), which rose 4.51% or 0.87 points to trade at 20.18 at the close. FinecoBank Banca Fineco SpA (MI:FBK) added 2.30% or 0.16 points to end at 7.12 and Davide Campari Milano SpA (MI:CPRI) was up 2.25% or 0.14 points to 6.13 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UniCredit SpA (MI:CRDI), which lost 1.68% or 0.2900 points to trade at 17.0000 in late trade. Mediaset (MI:MS) declined 1.34% or 0.042 points to end at 3.104 and Terna (MI:TRN) shed 0.24% or 0.012 points to 4.900.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 216 to 116 and 23 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was up 0.09% or 0.04 to $46.48 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 0.74% or 0.38 to hit $51.28 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.26% or 3.47 to trade at $1315.43 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.39% to 1.1925, while EUR/GBP fell 0.52% to 0.9217.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.38% at 92.62.