Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Financials and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 added 1.83%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Banco Popolare Sc (MI:BAPO), which rose 8.73% or 0.3820 points to trade at 4.7600 at the close. Meanwhile, Banca Popolare di Milano Scarl (MI:PMII) added 8.27% or 0.0420 points to end at 0.5500 and UBI Banca (MI:UBI) was up 7.22% or 0.2500 points to 3.7120 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Atlantia (MI:ATL), which fell 1.48% or 0.36 points to trade at 23.98 at the close. Banca Mediolanum SpA (MI:BMED) declined 1.29% or 0.100 points to end at 7.630 and Luxottica Group (MI:LUX) was down 1.11% or 0.55 points to 49.11.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 298 to 110 and 25 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for July delivery was up 0.68% or 0.33 to $48.95 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 1.05% or 0.51 to hit $49.12 a barrel, while the June Gold contract fell 0.59% or 7.25 to trade at $1221.95 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.11% to 1.1153, while EUR/GBP fell 0.29% to 0.7592.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.13% at 95.47.