Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Technology and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 0.62%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP), which rose 2.24% or 0.62 points to trade at 28.31 at the close. ENI (MI:ENI) added 1.95% or 0.2600 points to end at 13.6100 and Saipem (MI:SPMI) was up 1.79% or 0.0073 points to 0.4160 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banco Popolare (MI:BAPO), which lost 1.19% or 0.0260 points to trade at 2.1660 in late trade. Generali (MI:GASI) declined 1.06% or 0.1200 points to end at 11.1900 and FinecoBank Banca Fineco SpA (MI:FBK) shed 0.65% or 0.04 points to 5.38.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 233 to 131 and 40 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was up 0.02% or 0.01 to $47.34 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 0.34% or 0.17 to hit $49.50 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.14% or 1.90 to trade at $1326.50 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.46% to 1.1230, while EUR/GBP fell 0.20% to 0.8539.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.54% at 95.19.