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 fell 0.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (MI:FCHA), which rose 2.50% or 0.1700 points to trade at 6.9750 at the close. Finmeccanica (MI:SIFI) added 2.05% or 0.220 points to end at 10.960 and Unipol (MI:UNPI) was up 1.55% or 0.056 points to 3.672 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banco Popolare (MI:BAPO), which lost 3.29% or 0.2650 points to trade at 7.7850 in late trade. Intesa Sanpaolo (MI:ISP) declined 2.19% or 0.0580 points to end at 2.5920 and Luxottica Group (MI:LUX) shed 2.04% or 1.02 points to 48.96.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 216 to 175 and 21 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was up 4.13% or 1.50 to $37.84 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 3.12% or 1.21 to hit $39.95 a barrel, while the April Gold contract fell 0.09% or 1.10 to trade at $1229.90 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.32% to 1.1073, while EUR/GBP rose 0.10% to 0.7859.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.30% at 96.95.