Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Financials, Chemicals and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 fell 2.23%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were CNH Industrial NV (MI:CNHI), which rose 3.13% or 0.270 points to trade at 8.900 at the close. Telecom Italia (MI:TLIT) added 1.41% or 0.0115 points to end at 0.8300 and Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA (MI:BMPS) was unchanged 0.00% or 0.0000 points to 15.0800 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UniCredit SpA (MI:CRDI), which lost 6.86% or 0.9000 points to trade at 12.2100 in late trade. Banco Bpm (MI:BAMI) declined 5.85% or 0.158 points to end at 2.542 and Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MI:EMII) shed 5.71% or 0.315 points to 5.200.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 263 to 79 and 11 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 1.10% or 0.59 to $53.24 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 1.39% or 0.79 to hit $56.02 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.86% or 10.45 to trade at $1231.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.45% to 1.0734, while EUR/GBP fell 0.27% to 0.8619.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.36% at 100.05.