Investing.com – Italy stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Oil & Gas and Financials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 fell 1.11%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP), which rose 3.45% or 0.89 points to trade at 26.65 at the close. Meanwhile, Poste Italiane SpA (MI:PST) added 3.36% or 0.2200 points to end at 6.7700 and Luxottica Group (MI:LUX) was up 1.19% or 0.58 points to 49.48 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Telecom Italia (MI:TLIT), which fell 3.73% or 0.0390 points to trade at 1.0070 at the close. Mediaset (MI:MS) declined 3.33% or 0.126 points to end at 3.658 and Unicredit (MI:CRDI) was down 3.09% or 0.1140 points to 3.5780.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 264 to 137 and 20 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was down 3.23% or 1.34 to $40.11 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 2.54% or 1.06 to hit $40.73 a barrel, while the April Gold contract fell 1.95% or 24.40 to trade at $1224.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.32% to 1.1181, while EUR/GBP rose 0.39% to 0.7926.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.44% at 96.09.