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Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Chemicals, Healthcare and Utilities sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 0.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Italgas SpA (BIT:IG), which rose 2.63% or 0.19 points to trade at 7.23 at the close. Recordati (BIT:RECI) added 2.23% or 1.15 points to end at 52.80 and Inwit (BIT:INWT) was up 1.47% or 0.15 points to 10.33 in late trade.
Biggest losers included STMicroelectronics (BIT:STMMI), which lost 1.93% or 0.44 points to trade at 22.10 in late trade. Telecom Italia (BIT:TLIT) declined 1.70% or 0.01 points to end at 0.38 and Buzzi Unicem (BIT:BZU) shed 1.48% or 0.68 points to 45.22.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 300 to 241 and 47 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 1.05% or 0.64 to $60.30 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 1.37% or 0.87 to hit $62.48 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.93% or 31.19 to trade at $3,312.71 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was unchanged 0.15% to 1.13, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.05% to 0.84.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.14% at 99.35.