Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Industrials, Financials and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 0.21% to hit a new 1-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU), which rose 2.30% or 0.44 points to trade at 19.60 at the close. Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP) added 1.89% or 0.53 points to end at 28.62 and Atlantia (MI:ATL) was up 1.79% or 0.40 points to 22.74 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Recordati (MI:RECI), which lost 2.73% or 0.78 points to trade at 27.81 in late trade. Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MI:EMII) declined 1.40% or 0.050 points to end at 3.516 and Unipol (MI:UNPI) shed 1.38% or 0.036 points to 2.564.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 211 to 172 and 32 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was up 2.28% or 0.99 to $44.48 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 1.93% or 0.89 to hit $46.93 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.24% or 3.25 to trade at $1346.75 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.29% to 1.1170, while EUR/GBP rose 0.62% to 0.8651.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.28% at 95.63.