Investing.com – Italy stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Industrials, Technology and Financials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 fell 0.25%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Telecom Italia (MI:TLIT), which rose 6.94% or 0.0554 points to trade at 0.8532 at the close. Meanwhile, Snam (MI:SRG) added 1.22% or 0.046 points to end at 3.820 and A2A (MI:A2) was up 1.21% or 0.019 points to 1.586 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Prysmian (MI:PRY), which fell 4.37% or 1.13 points to trade at 24.72 at the close. CNH Industrial NV (MI:CNHI) declined 3.47% or 0.346 points to end at 9.614 and FinecoBank Banca Fineco SpA (MI:FBK) was down 3.32% or 0.33 points to 9.67.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 171 to 168 and 34 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was down 1.83% or 1.16 to $62.38 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 1.35% or 0.92 to hit $67.41 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.50% or 6.60 to trade at $1335.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.25% to 1.2271, while EUR/GBP fell 0.38% to 0.8709.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 89.87.