Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Financials and Chemicals sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 declined 1.30%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were CNH Industrial NV (MI:CNHI), which rose 1.00% or 0.110 points to trade at 11.160 at the close. STMicroelectronics (MI:STM) added 0.86% or 0.160 points to end at 18.780 and Generali (MI:GASI) was up 0.46% or 0.07 points to 15.36 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bper Banca SpA (MI:EMII), which lost 6.30% or 0.286 points to trade at 4.252 in late trade. UniCredit SpA (MI:CRDI) declined 4.65% or 0.8100 points to end at 16.6000 and Banco Bpm (MI:BAMI) shed 4.52% or 0.124 points to 2.620.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 236 to 127 and 24 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.72% or 0.41 to $56.73 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 1.18% or 0.75 to hit $62.59 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.45% or 5.60 to trade at $1247.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.16% to 1.1761, while EUR/GBP fell 0.17% to 0.8802.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.16% at 93.91.