Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Financials, Industrials and Travel & Leisure sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 0.58% to hit a new 52-week high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were CNH Industrial NV (MI:CNHI), which rose 2.50% or 0.300 points to trade at 12.310 at the close. Prysmian (MI:PRY) added 1.77% or 0.50 points to end at 28.74 and Salvatore Ferragamo (MI:SFER) was up 1.64% or 0.36 points to 22.26 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UnipolSai Assicurazioni SpA (MI:US), which lost 1.07% or 0.022 points to trade at 2.028 in late trade. Unipol Gruppo Finanziario Spa (MI:UNPI) declined 0.83% or 0.036 points to end at 4.300 and Telecom Italia (MI:TLIT) shed 0.60% or 0.0045 points to 0.7435.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 194 to 164 and 34 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was down 0.05% or 0.03 to $63.77 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March fell 0.12% or 0.08 to hit $69.18 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.70% or 9.20 to trade at $1331.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.86% to 1.2136, while EUR/GBP fell 0.29% to 0.8862.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.68% at 91.04.