Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Travel & Leisure, Financials and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 declined 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Amplifon (BIT:AMPF), which rose 2.78% or 0.69 points to trade at 25.49 at the close. Inwit (BIT:INWT) added 1.57% or 0.15 points to end at 9.73 and STMicroelectronics (BIT:STMMI) was up 0.84% or 0.19 points to 23.87 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pirelli & C SPA (BIT:PIRC), which lost 1.09% or 0.06 points to trade at 5.46 in late trade. Banca Popolare di Sondrio ScpA (BIT:BPSI) declined 0.99% or 0.08 points to end at 8.02 and Moncler SpA (BIT:MONC) shed 0.97% or 0.49 points to 49.91.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 0 to 0 on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was down 0.09% or 0.06 to $70.10 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 1.24% or 0.90 to hit $73.22 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to trade at $2,633.50 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was unchanged 0.15% to 1.04, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.16% to 0.83.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.18% at 108.00.