Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Financials, Utilities and Travel & Leisure sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 4.04% to hit a new 3-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Unicredit (MI:CRDI), which rose 12.81% or 0.2580 points to trade at 2.2720 at the close. Mediobanca (MI:MDBI) added 9.94% or 0.640 points to end at 7.080 and UBI Banca (MI:UBI) was up 9.70% or 0.2000 points to 2.2620 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Luxottica Group (MI:LUX), which lost 0.30% or 0.15 points to trade at 50.20 in late trade. Tenaris (MI:TENR) unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 points to end at 15.94 and CNH Industrial NV (MI:CNHI) gained 0.36% or 0.030 points to 8.375.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 348 to 66 and 18 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 1.80% or 0.93 to $50.86 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 1.71% or 0.94 to hit $54.00 a barrel, while the February Gold contract fell 0.52% or 6.15 to trade at $1170.35 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.56% to 1.0704, while EUR/GBP fell 0.06% to 0.8448.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.42% at 100.58.