Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Technology, Financials and Travel & Leisure sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 gained 0.62%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Salvatore Ferragamo (MI:SFER), which rose 6.63% or 1.62 points to trade at 26.07 at the close. UniCredit SpA (MI:CRDI) added 5.72% or 1.4400 points to end at 26.6000 and STMicroelectronics (MI:STM) was up 3.45% or 0.420 points to 12.600 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Luxottica Group (MI:LUX), which lost 2.03% or 1.01 points to trade at 48.68 in late trade. Tenaris (MI:TENR) declined 0.68% or 0.11 points to end at 16.06 and Mediaset (MI:MS) shed 0.66% or 0.026 points to 3.930.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 233 to 111 and 7 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was up 0.40% or 0.21 to $53.02 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 0.54% or 0.30 to hit $55.88 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.39% or 4.75 to trade at $1206.65 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.38% to 1.0756, while EUR/GBP fell 0.83% to 0.8511.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.30% at 99.83.