Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Travel & Leisure, Industrials and Utilities sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the FTSE MIB added 1.45%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the FTSE MIB were Generali (MILAN:GASI), which rose 3.80% or 0.66 points to trade at 18.01 at the close. Atlantia (MILAN:ATL) added 3.37% or 0.79 points to end at 24.22 and Luxottica Group (MILAN:LUX) was up 3.23% or 1.85 points to 59.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Salvatore Ferragamo (MILAN:SFER), which lost 5.28% or 1.55 points to trade at 27.80 in late trade. Moncler SpA (MILAN:MONC) declined 2.94% or 0.52 points to end at 17.17 and Banca Popolare Milano (MILAN:PMII) shed 0.58% or 0.0055 points to 0.9360.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 294 to 180 and 6 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was down 1.24% or 0.75 to $59.75 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.81% or 0.55 to hit $66.72 a barrel, while the June Gold contract rose 0.43% or 5.20 to trade at $1223.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.20% to 1.1377, while EUR/GBP rose 0.15% to 0.7221.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.13% at 93.61.