Investing.com – Italy stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Telecoms, Chemicals and Utilities sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 lost 1.01%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Prysmian (MI:PRY), which rose 2.16% or 0.55 points to trade at 25.97 at the close. Meanwhile, UniCredit SpA (MI:CRDI) added 1.84% or 0.3220 points to end at 17.8600 and Moncler SpA (MI:MONC) was up 0.71% or 0.26 points to 36.79 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Banco Bpm (MI:BAMI), which fell 4.15% or 0.127 points to trade at 2.933 at the close. A2A (MI:A2) declined 4.13% or 0.069 points to end at 1.600 and Telecom Italia (MI:TLIT) was down 3.86% or 0.0320 points to 0.7970.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 216 to 135 and 30 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was down 0.28% or 0.20 to $70.94 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.27% or 0.21 to hit $77.00 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.53% or 7.00 to trade at $1320.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.53% to 1.1913, while EUR/GBP rose 0.83% to 0.8821.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.36% at 92.62.