Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Telecoms, Financials and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 gained 3.36%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MI:EMII), which rose 10.14% or 0.469 points to trade at 5.095 at the close. Meanwhile, Banco Popolare Sc (MI:BAPO) added 8.05% or 0.6000 points to end at 8.0500 and UBI Banca (MI:UBI) was up 7.96% or 0.2620 points to 3.5540 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Italcementi (MI:ITAI), which rose 0.39% or 0.040 points to trade at 10.240 at the close. Atlantia (MI:ATL) added 0.87% or 0.20 points to end at 23.06 and Moncler SpA (MI:MONC) was up 1.09% or 0.15 points to 13.94.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 374 to 46 and 13 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for April delivery was up 5.89% or 1.87 to $33.62 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 5.36% or 1.77 to hit $34.78 a barrel, while the April Gold contract fell 1.66% or 20.40 to trade at $1210.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 1.02% to 1.1017, while EUR/GBP rose 0.78% to 0.7787.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.86% at 97.45.