Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Travel & Leisure, Telecoms and Industrials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 added 0.14%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Juventus Football Club (MI:JUVE), which rose 10.17% or 0.1080 points to trade at 1.1700 at the close. Meanwhile, Prysmian (MI:PRY) added 3.44% or 0.58 points to end at 17.45 and Snam SpA (MI:SRG) was up 3.17% or 0.121 points to 3.940 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bper Banca SpA (MI:EMII), which fell 2.02% or 0.068 points to trade at 3.296 at the close. Intesa Sanpaolo SpA (MI:ISP) declined 1.72% or 0.033 points to end at 1.906 and Unipol Gruppo Finanziario Spa (MI:UNPI) was down 1.65% or 0.058 points to 3.460.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 188 to 154 and 20 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for February delivery was up 4.05% or 1.84 to $47.25 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 3.53% or 1.90 to hit $55.70 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.50% or 6.40 to trade at $1287.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.98% to 1.1350, while EUR/GBP rose 0.26% to 0.9011.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.67% at 96.377.