Investing.com – Italy stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Utilities and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 declined 1.72%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Moncler SpA (MI:MONC), which rose 3.49% or 1.23 points to trade at 36.48 at the close. Meanwhile, Prysmian (MI:PRY) added 1.75% or 0.44 points to end at 25.57 and Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU) was up 1.13% or 0.25 points to 22.30 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bper Banca SpA (MI:EMII), which fell 3.98% or 0.188 points to trade at 4.530 at the close. Italgas SpA (MI:IG) declined 3.63% or 0.194 points to end at 5.144 and Freni Brembo SpA (MI:BRBI) was down 3.51% or 0.46 points to 12.65.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 255 to 97 and 28 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was down 2.84% or 2.01 to $68.72 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 2.28% or 1.74 to hit $74.43 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.03% or 0.40 to trade at $1314.50 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.33% to 1.1884, while EUR/GBP fell 0.31% to 0.8768.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.25% at 92.84.