Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Travel & Leisure sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 fell 0.23%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were STMicroelectronics (MI:STM), which rose 3.79% or 0.550 points to trade at 15.050 at the close. Prysmian (MI:PRY) added 2.75% or 0.69 points to end at 25.78 and Banca Generali (MI:BGN) was up 2.55% or 0.66 points to 26.59 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ENI (MI:ENI), which lost 1.99% or 0.28 points to trade at 13.79 in late trade. Azimut Holding (MI:AZMT) declined 1.80% or 0.32 points to end at 17.46 and Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP) shed 1.74% or 0.42 points to 23.76.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 219 to 139 and 12 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 4.73% or 2.28 to $45.91 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 3.81% or 1.91 to hit $48.21 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.35% or 4.48 to trade at $1293.02 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.28% to 1.1246, while EUR/GBP fell 0.31% to 0.8707.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.25% at 96.74.