Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Chemicals, Technology and Travel & Leisure sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 fell 0.22%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU), which rose 6.09% or 1.30 points to trade at 22.65 at the close. FinecoBank Banca Fineco SpA (MI:FBK) added 1.08% or 0.08 points to end at 7.47 and Exor NV (MI:EXOR) was up 1.02% or 0.55 points to 54.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UniCredit SpA (MI:CRDI), which lost 2.24% or 0.4000 points to trade at 17.4700 in late trade. STMicroelectronics (MI:STM) declined 1.75% or 0.290 points to end at 16.280 and Atlantia (MI:ATL) shed 1.67% or 0.46 points to 27.07.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 177 to 171 and 24 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was up 2.10% or 1.05 to $50.95 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November rose 2.18% or 1.20 to hit $56.34 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.41% or 5.41 to trade at $1316.01 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.07% to 1.2002, while EUR/GBP fell 0.41% to 0.8847.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.13% at 91.50.