Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Financials, Utilities and Travel & Leisure sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 0.74%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP), which rose 8.73% or 2.04 points to trade at 25.41 at the close. Banco Bpm (MI:BAMI) added 3.79% or 0.102 points to end at 2.796 and Intesa Sanpaolo (MI:ISP) was up 3.52% or 0.092 points to 2.708 in late trade.
Biggest losers included STMicroelectronics (MI:STM), which lost 3.28% or 0.440 points to trade at 12.960 in late trade. Prysmian (MI:PRY) declined 1.28% or 0.34 points to end at 26.20 and Telecom Italia (MI:TLIT) shed 1.10% or 0.0090 points to 0.8060.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 214 to 143 and 15 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.77% or 0.33 to $43.34 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.57% or 0.26 to hit $46.01 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.92% or 11.59 to trade at $1244.81 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.08% to 1.1186, while EUR/GBP fell 0.05% to 0.8795.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 97.06.