Investing.com – Italy stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Technology, Travel & Leisure and Financials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 declined 0.30%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Telecom Italia (MI:TLIT), which rose 3.38% or 0.0240 points to trade at 0.7335 at the close. Meanwhile, Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP) added 3.03% or 0.87 points to end at 29.59 and Prysmian (MI:PRY) was up 0.93% or 0.25 points to 27.23 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were STMicroelectronics (MI:STM), which fell 3.73% or 0.700 points to trade at 18.080 at the close. Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU) declined 1.84% or 0.42 points to end at 22.35 and Banca Generali (MI:BGN) was down 1.83% or 0.53 points to 28.37.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 249 to 113 and 18 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was down 2.46% or 1.42 to $56.20 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 2.21% or 1.39 to hit $61.47 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.07% or 0.90 to trade at $1265.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.33% to 1.1786, while EUR/GBP rose 0.14% to 0.8809.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.35% at 93.60.