Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Travel & Leisure, Financials and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 1.41%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Saipem SpA (MI:SPMI), which rose 6.97% or 0.2990 points to trade at 4.5860 at the close. Meanwhile, Unione di Banche Italiane SpA (MI:UBI) added 4.07% or 0.1290 points to end at 3.2990 and Intesa Sanpaolo SpA (MI:ISP) was up 3.39% or 0.073 points to 2.243 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Davide Campari Milano SpA (MI:CPRI), which fell 1.61% or 0.12 points to trade at 7.66 at the close. Moncler SpA (MI:MONC) declined 0.97% or 0.37 points to end at 37.81 and Salvatore Ferragamo SpA (MI:SFER) was down 0.23% or 0.04 points to 19.48.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 261 to 76 and 32 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was up 1.05% or 0.69 to $66.11 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 0.65% or 0.47 to hit $72.68 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.18% or 2.20 to trade at $1196.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.48% to 1.1537, while EUR/GBP fell 0.08% to 0.8965.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.32% at 95.37.