Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Chemicals, Industrials and Travel & Leisure sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 fell 0.48%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were STMicroelectronics (MI:STM), which rose 2.30% or 0.460 points to trade at 20.470 at the close. UniCredit SpA (MI:CRDI) added 1.93% or 0.3200 points to end at 16.9100 and Generali (MI:GASI) was up 1.55% or 0.24 points to 15.77 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Leonardo SpA (MI:LDOF), which lost 21.55% or 3.040 points to trade at 11.070 in late trade. Freni Brembo SpA (MI:BRBI) declined 3.20% or 0.43 points to end at 13.00 and Banco Bpm (MI:BAMI) shed 2.84% or 0.080 points to 2.734.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 227 to 139 and 15 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was down 0.10% or 0.06 to $57.11 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $63.93 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.88% or 11.31 to trade at $1276.19 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.11% to 1.1655, while EUR/GBP fell 0.33% to 0.8827.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.10% at 94.33.