Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Telecoms, Financials and Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 fell 0.56%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU), which rose 2.72% or 0.62 points to trade at 23.38 at the close. Brembo (MI:BRBI) added 1.31% or 0.80 points to end at 62.10 and Azimut Holding (MI:AZMT) was up 0.95% or 0.16 points to 17.03 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MI:EMII), which lost 7.83% or 0.404 points to trade at 4.756 in late trade. UBI Banca (MI:UBI) declined 5.73% or 0.1800 points to end at 2.9600 and Banco Bpm (MI:BAMI) shed 5.32% or 0.132 points to 2.350.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 191 to 145 and 11 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was up 2.02% or 1.07 to $54.07 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 2.07% or 1.15 to hit $56.78 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.11% or 1.35 to trade at $1235.45 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.14% to 1.0644, while EUR/GBP fell 0.11% to 0.8516.
The US Dollar Index Futures was unchanged 0.00% at 100.66.