Investing.com – Italy stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Travel & Leisure, Financials and Chemicals sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the FTSE MIB fell 0.90% to hit a new 1-month low.
The best performers of the session on the FTSE MIB were Saipem (MILAN:SPMI), which rose 2.23% or 0.23 points to trade at 10.53 at the close. Meanwhile, Luxottica Group (MILAN:LUX) added 0.34% or 0.20 points to end at 59.15 and Tenaris (MILAN:TENR) was up 0.23% or 0.03 points to 12.94 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Mediobanca (MILAN:MDBI), which fell 2.79% or 0.255 points to trade at 8.875 at the close. Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MILAN:EMII) declined 2.20% or 0.170 points to end at 7.550 and Unicredit (MILAN:CRDI) was down 1.98% or 0.125 points to 6.200.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 354 to 121 and 5 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for July delivery was down 1.78% or 1.05 to $58.08 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 1.10% or 0.69 to hit $62.62 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 0.31% or 3.60 to trade at $1171.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 1.07% to 1.1233, while EUR/GBP rose 0.90% to 0.7342.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.73% at 95.67.