Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Industrials, Technology and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 lost 0.25%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Telecom Italia (MI:TLIT), which rose 6.94% or 0.0554 points to trade at 0.8532 at the close. Snam (MI:SRG) added 1.22% or 0.046 points to end at 3.820 and A2A (MI:A2) was up 1.21% or 0.019 points to 1.586 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Prysmian (MI:PRY), which lost 4.37% or 1.13 points to trade at 24.72 in late trade. CNH Industrial NV (MI:CNHI) declined 3.47% or 0.346 points to end at 9.614 and FinecoBank Banca Fineco SpA (MI:FBK) shed 3.32% or 0.33 points to 9.67.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 171 to 168 and 34 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 1.90% or 1.21 to $62.33 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 1.42% or 0.97 to hit $67.36 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.52% or 6.90 to trade at $1335.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.26% to 1.2273, while EUR/GBP fell 0.37% to 0.8710.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.29% at 89.86.