Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Telecoms, Financials and Oil & Gas 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 Davide Campari Milano SpA (MI:CPRI), which rose 3.01% or 0.19 points to trade at 6.51 at the close. Recordati (MI:RECI) added 0.63% or 0.25 points to end at 40.08 and Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU) was up 0.61% or 0.14 points to 23.23 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Azimut Holding (MI:AZMT), which lost 3.61% or 0.65 points to trade at 17.36 in late trade. Banco Bpm (MI:BAMI) declined 3.57% or 0.114 points to end at 3.076 and Unione di Banche Italiane SpA (MI:UBI) shed 3.33% or 0.1420 points to 4.1180.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 207 to 165 and 15 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 1.11% or 0.57 to $50.73 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 0.93% or 0.53 to hit $56.41 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.51% or 6.55 to trade at $1295.45 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.13% to 1.1842, while EUR/GBP fell 0.46% to 0.8930.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.12% at 92.90.