Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Travel & Leisure, Oil & Gas and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 0.41% to hit a new 1-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA (MI:BMPS), which rose 13.99% or 0.0293 points to trade at 0.2387 at the close. Leonardo Finmeccanica SpA (MI:LDOF) added 3.58% or 0.390 points to end at 11.290 and Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP) was up 2.31% or 0.64 points to 28.32 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Mediaset (MI:MS), which lost 3.39% or 0.092 points to trade at 2.620 in late trade. STMicroelectronics (MI:STM) declined 2.53% or 0.190 points to end at 7.320 and Prysmian (MI:PRY) shed 1.35% or 0.31 points to 22.68.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 254 to 153 and 34 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was down 1.79% or 0.93 to $50.89 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 2.03% or 1.07 to hit $51.60 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.27% or 3.40 to trade at $1266.50 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.39% to 1.0931, while EUR/GBP fell 0.12% to 0.8917.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.41% at 98.27.