Investing.com – Italy stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Chemicals, Telecoms and Financials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 fell 0.69%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Leonardo SpA (MI:LDOF), which rose 1.70% or 0.156 points to trade at 9.310 at the close. Meanwhile, Banca Generali (MI:BGN) added 0.51% or 0.14 points to end at 27.44 and FinecoBank Banca Fineco SpA (MI:FBK) was up 0.15% or 0.01 points to 10.12 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU), which fell 2.58% or 0.54 points to trade at 20.38 at the close. Atlantia (MI:ATL) declined 2.53% or 0.69 points to end at 26.62 and Unipol Gruppo Finanziario Spa (MI:UNPI) was down 2.47% or 0.101 points to 3.996.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 249 to 104 and 22 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for April delivery was down 0.15% or 0.09 to $60.62 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 0.26% or 0.17 to hit $64.47 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.20% or 2.70 to trade at $1324.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.17% to 1.2370, while EUR/GBP fell 0.12% to 0.8862.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.02% at 89.72.