Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Travel & Leisure, Telecoms and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 added 3.38%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Azimut Holding (MI:AZMT), which rose 8.18% or 1.41 points to trade at 18.65 at the close. Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP) added 6.68% or 1.47 points to end at 23.46 and Unipol (MI:UNPI) was up 6.26% or 0.168 points to 2.850 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Poste Italiane SpA (MI:PST), which lost 2.75% or 0.1900 points to trade at 6.7250 in late trade. Banco Popolare (MI:BAPO) declined 2.70% or 0.0800 points to end at 2.8820 and Enel (MI:ENEI) shed 1.59% or 0.0640 points to 3.9560.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 330 to 74 and 14 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 2.64% or 1.28 to $49.84 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August rose 2.70% or 1.33 to hit $50.50 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.39% or 5.05 to trade at $1289.75 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.29% to 1.1310, while EUR/GBP fell 1.92% to 0.7702.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.57% at 93.76.