Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Travel & Leisure, Chemicals and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 gained 0.13%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Leonardo SpA (BIT:LDOF), which rose 1.95% or 0.49 points to trade at 25.60 at the close. Meanwhile, Saipem SpA (BIT:SPMI) added 1.89% or 0.04 points to end at 2.37 and Unipol Gruppo Finanziario Spa (BIT:UNPI) was up 1.65% or 0.19 points to 11.68 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Nexi SpA (BIT:NEXII), which fell 3.25% or 0.18 points to trade at 5.30 at the close. Telecom Italia (BIT:TLIT) unchanged 1.67% or 0.00 points to end at 0.23 and Moncler SpA (BIT:MONC) was down 1.38% or 0.65 points to 46.55.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 261 to 259 and 37 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was up 1.29% or 0.89 to $69.64 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 1.19% or 0.87 to hit $73.68 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.52% or 13.80 to trade at $2,665.50 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.73% to 1.05, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.16% to 0.83.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.44% at 107.09.