Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Travel & Leisure, Healthcare and Industrials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 0.24%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Autogrill (MILAN:AGL), which rose 4.91% or 0.40 points to trade at 8.45 at the close. Meanwhile, Moncler SpA (MILAN:MONC) added 2.26% or 0.36 points to end at 16.28 and Atlantia (MILAN:ATL) was up 2.01% or 0.49 points to 24.81 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MILAN:EMII), which fell 1.97% or 0.155 points to trade at 7.730 at the close. Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA (MILAN:BMPS) declined 1.49% or 0.0260 points to end at 1.7180 and CNH Industrial NV (MILAN:CNHI) was down 1.11% or 0.075 points to 6.680.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 244 to 191 and 3 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was down 0.32% or 0.15 to $47.00 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 1.68% or 0.83 to hit $48.91 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.14% or 1.60 to trade at $1117.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.18% to 1.1312, while EUR/GBP fell 0.05% to 0.7284.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.11% at 95.40.