Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Telecoms, Oil & Gas and Financials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 1.00%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Buzzi Unicem (MILAN:BZU), which rose 3.41% or 0.52 points to trade at 15.76 at the close. Meanwhile, Campari (MILAN:CPRI) added 3.03% or 0.20 points to end at 6.97 and Telecom Italia (MILAN:TLIT) was up 2.80% or 0.0310 points to 1.1380 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were STMicroelectronics (MILAN:STM), which fell 4.39% or 0.295 points to trade at 6.420 at the close. Yoox (MILAN:YOOX) declined 0.39% or 0.11 points to end at 28.34 and World Duty Free SpA (MILAN:WDF) was down 0.20% or 0.020 points to 10.220.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 302 to 129 and 4 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was down 1.52% or 0.70 to $45.24 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 1.83% or 0.91 to hit $48.62 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 1.53% or 17.20 to trade at $1103.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.47% to 1.1150, while EUR/GBP fell 0.29% to 0.7257.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.49% at 96.31.