Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Chemicals, Telecoms and Travel & Leisure sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 fell 0.63%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were A2A (MI:A2), which rose 5.61% or 0.081 points to trade at 1.524 at the close. Davide Campari Milano SpA (MI:CPRI) added 2.33% or 0.15 points to end at 6.59 and Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP) was up 1.97% or 0.56 points to 28.98 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Saipem SpA (MI:SPMI), which lost 7.07% or 0.2660 points to trade at 3.4980 in late trade. Leonardo SpA (MI:LDOF) declined 4.82% or 0.510 points to end at 10.080 and Telecom Italia (MI:TLIT) shed 2.83% or 0.0195 points to 0.6700.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 252 to 124 and 11 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was down 2.17% or 1.23 to $55.53 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 2.07% or 1.31 to hit $61.85 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.01% or 0.11 to trade at $1278.79 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.85% to 1.1766, while EUR/GBP rose 0.75% to 0.8963.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.52% at 93.91.