Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Travel & Leisure, Financials and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 1.14%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Moncler SpA (MI:MONC), which rose 5.19% or 1.60 points to trade at 32.40 at the close. FinecoBank Banca Fineco SpA (MI:FBK) added 4.45% or 0.42 points to end at 9.80 and Banca Generali (MI:BGN) was up 4.44% or 0.77 points to 18.13 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Luxottica Group SpA (MI:LUX), which lost 1.28% or 0.72 points to trade at 55.62 in late trade. Saipem SpA (MI:SPMI) declined 1.31% or 0.0610 points to end at 4.6090 and Pirelli & C SPA (MI:PIRC) shed 0.96% or 0.06 points to 6.38.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 271 to 92 and 26 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was down 0.72% or 0.46 to $63.23 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 0.15% or 0.11 to hit $72.78 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.19% or 2.40 to trade at $1233.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.23% to 1.1382, while EUR/GBP rose 0.11% to 0.8779.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 96.33.