Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Chemicals, Telecoms and Travel & Leisure sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 1.56%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Telecom Italia (MI:TLIT), which rose 5.95% or 0.0434 points to trade at 0.7722 at the close. Meanwhile, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (MI:FCHA) added 5.67% or 0.916 points to end at 17.076 and Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU) was up 4.17% or 0.84 points to 20.97 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Luxottica Group (MI:LUX), which fell 1.77% or 0.92 points to trade at 51.10 at the close. Salvatore Ferragamo (MI:SFER) declined 0.91% or 0.20 points to end at 21.83 and ENI (MI:ENI) was down 0.51% or 0.07 points to 13.33.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 292 to 61 and 28 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for April delivery was down 0.14% or 0.09 to $62.48 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 0.29% or 0.19 to hit $65.73 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 1.45% or 19.20 to trade at $1339.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.65% to 1.2416, while EUR/GBP rose 0.38% to 0.8941.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.50% at 89.51.