Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Industrials and Travel & Leisure sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 added 0.21%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Ferrari NV (MI:RACE), which rose 7.46% or 7.16 points to trade at 103.20 at the close. CNH Industrial NV (MI:CNHI) added 4.74% or 0.565 points to end at 12.480 and Salvatore Ferragamo (MI:SFER) was up 2.25% or 0.51 points to 23.17 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banco Bpm (MI:BAMI), which lost 1.96% or 0.060 points to trade at 3.003 in late trade. Unipol Gruppo Finanziario Spa (MI:UNPI) declined 1.85% or 0.082 points to end at 4.359 and Atlantia (MI:ATL) shed 1.46% or 0.39 points to 26.29.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 229 to 127 and 35 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was up 1.16% or 0.75 to $65.48 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 0.55% or 0.38 to hit $69.27 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.18% or 2.40 to trade at $1345.50 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.55% to 1.2481, while EUR/GBP rose 0.17% to 0.8762.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.35% at 88.64.