Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Travel & Leisure, Oil & Gas and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 fell 0.82%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Moncler SpA (MI:MONC), which rose 1.88% or 0.44 points to trade at 23.79 at the close. Recordati (MI:RECI) added 0.77% or 0.27 points to end at 35.48 and Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP) was up 0.77% or 0.22 points to 28.81 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Unione di Banche Italiane SpA (MI:UBI), which lost 2.62% or 0.1080 points to trade at 4.0200 in late trade. UniCredit SpA (MI:CRDI) declined 2.05% or 0.3700 points to end at 17.6600 and Salvatore Ferragamo (MI:SFER) shed 1.98% or 0.49 points to 24.27.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 220 to 127 and 20 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was up 0.36% or 0.17 to $46.95 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 1.05% or 0.53 to hit $50.80 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.60% or 7.69 to trade at $1290.59 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.20% to 1.1743, while EUR/GBP fell 0.10% to 0.9119.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.13% at 93.53.