Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Financials, Telecoms and Technology sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 2.87%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Unicredit (MI:CRDI), which rose 13.45% or 0.2490 points to trade at 2.1000 at the close. UBI Banca (MI:UBI) added 10.86% or 0.2760 points to end at 2.8180 and Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MI:EMII) was up 8.15% or 0.256 points to 3.396 in late trade.
Biggest losers included FinecoBank Banca Fineco SpA (MI:FBK), which lost 1.22% or 0.07 points to trade at 5.68 in late trade. Recordati (MI:RECI) declined 0.60% or 0.17 points to end at 28.13 and Terna (MI:TRN) shed 0.49% or 0.024 points to 4.900.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 287 to 78 and 31 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 4.38% or 1.96 to $46.72 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 4.58% or 2.12 to hit $48.37 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 1.86% or 25.25 to trade at $1331.35 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.29% to 1.1090, while EUR/GBP fell 1.91% to 0.8351.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.25% at 96.34.