Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Travel & Leisure and Industrials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 gained 0.63%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP), which rose 4.23% or 0.88 points to trade at 21.67 at the close. Meanwhile, UnipolSai Assicurazioni SpA (MI:US) added 4.08% or 0.055 points to end at 1.402 and Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU) was up 3.89% or 0.61 points to 16.29 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Unicredit (MI:CRDI), which fell 4.92% or 0.0970 points to trade at 1.8730 at the close. Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MI:EMII) declined 4.82% or 0.158 points to end at 3.120 and UBI Banca (MI:UBI) was down 1.94% or 0.0480 points to 2.4260.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 252 to 138 and 31 ended unchanged.
Shares in Unicredit (MI:CRDI) fell to all time lows; falling 4.92% or 0.0970 to 1.8730. Shares in Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MI:EMII) fell to 3-years lows; down 4.82% or 0.158 to 3.120.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 0.29% or 0.14 to $48.19 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.32% or 0.16 to hit $49.55 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 1.34% or 17.75 to trade at $1338.35 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.32% to 1.1141, while EUR/GBP rose 0.79% to 0.8400.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.25% at 95.71.