Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Financials and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 declined 0.32%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Azimut Holding (MI:AZMT), which rose 3.31% or 0.54 points to trade at 16.84 at the close. Moncler SpA (MI:MONC) added 1.90% or 0.33 points to end at 17.74 and Recordati (MI:RECI) was up 1.82% or 0.48 points to 26.87 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banco Bpm (MI:BAMI), which lost 5.98% or 0.152 points to trade at 2.390 in late trade. Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MI:EMII) declined 3.46% or 0.180 points to end at 5.020 and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (MI:FCHA) shed 2.91% or 0.290 points to 9.680.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 184 to 156 and 11 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 1.87% or 0.99 to $52.02 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 1.53% or 0.85 to hit $54.87 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.19% or 2.35 to trade at $1234.45 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.54% to 1.0690, while EUR/GBP fell 0.73% to 0.8557.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.46% at 100.30.