Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Chemicals, Financials and Travel & Leisure sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 0.32%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Intesa Sanpaolo (MI:ISP), which rose 4.21% or 0.086 points to trade at 2.130 at the close. Meanwhile, Unicredit (MI:CRDI) added 3.50% or 0.0780 points to end at 2.3060 and Unipol (MI:UNPI) was up 2.89% or 0.070 points to 2.494 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tenaris (MI:TENR), which fell 2.53% or 0.32 points to trade at 12.32 at the close. Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU) declined 2.41% or 0.47 points to end at 19.06 and STMicroelectronics (MI:STM) was down 1.76% or 0.120 points to 6.710.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 219 to 181 and 22 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was down 3.43% or 1.59 to $44.76 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 3.41% or 1.66 to hit $47.07 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.37% or 4.85 to trade at $1311.65 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.18% to 1.1163, while EUR/GBP fell 0.28% to 0.8495.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.08% at 95.97.