Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Telecoms, Financials and Travel & Leisure sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 added 0.52%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Bper Banca SpA (MI:EMII), which rose 3.24% or 0.146 points to trade at 4.646 at the close. Meanwhile, Banco Bpm (MI:BAMI) added 2.74% or 0.074 points to end at 2.772 and Moncler SpA (MI:MONC) was up 2.49% or 0.59 points to 24.24 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP), which fell 1.49% or 0.44 points to trade at 29.15 at the close. Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU) declined 1.16% or 0.26 points to end at 22.09 and CNH Industrial NV (MI:CNHI) was down 0.99% or 0.110 points to 10.980.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 191 to 168 and 16 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was up 1.16% or 0.65 to $56.61 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 1.37% or 0.84 to hit $62.06 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.88% or 11.10 to trade at $1255.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.05% to 1.1789, while EUR/GBP fell 0.32% to 0.8779.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.12% at 93.64.