Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Financials and Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 fell 0.29%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were A2A (MI:A2), which rose 0.77% or 0.011 points to trade at 1.447 at the close. STMicroelectronics (MI:STM) added 0.76% or 0.130 points to end at 17.150 and Enel (MI:ENEI) was up 0.68% or 0.035 points to 5.185 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banca Generali (MI:BGN), which lost 2.88% or 0.83 points to trade at 27.99 in late trade. Davide Campari Milano SpA (MI:CPRI) declined 2.33% or 0.15 points to end at 6.50 and Mediaset (MI:MS) shed 2.32% or 0.074 points to 3.112.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 208 to 157 and 23 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 0.83% or 0.43 to $51.44 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 0.74% or 0.43 to hit $57.39 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 1.15% or 14.94 to trade at $1288.06 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.36% to 1.1754, while EUR/GBP rose 0.18% to 0.8917.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.35% at 93.47.