Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Travel & Leisure, Technology and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 declined 0.60%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Banco Bpm SpA (MI:BAMI), which rose 2.98% or 0.053 points to trade at 1.845 at the close. FinecoBank Banca Fineco SpA (MI:FBK) added 2.60% or 0.25 points to end at 9.88 and Poste Italiane SpA (MI:PST) was up 2.09% or 0.140 points to 6.824 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UniCredit SpA (MI:CRDI), which lost 3.81% or 0.4500 points to trade at 11.3560 in late trade. Mediaset SpA (MI:MS) declined 3.64% or 0.103 points to end at 2.725 and Salvatore Ferragamo SpA (MI:SFER) shed 2.71% or 0.57 points to 20.43.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 195 to 161 and 26 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was down 1.51% or 0.93 to $60.74 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 1.67% or 1.20 to hit $70.87 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.16% or 2.00 to trade at $1224.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.21% to 1.1403, while EUR/GBP fell 0.02% to 0.8702.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.40% at 96.19.