Investing.com – Italy stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Financials, Technology and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the FTSE MIB fell 2.40%.
The best performers of the session on the FTSE MIB were Pirelli & C (MILAN:PECI), which rose 0.20% or 0.03 points to trade at 15.36 at the close. Meanwhile, Snam (MILAN:SRG) fell 0.13% or 0.006 points to end at 4.734 and World Duty Free SpA (MILAN:WDF) was down 0.40% or 0.040 points to 9.990 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Azimut Holding (MILAN:AZMT), which fell 4.61% or 1.26 points to trade at 26.05 at the close. Banca Monte Paschi Siena (MILAN:BMPS) declined 4.56% or 0.0275 points to end at 0.5760 and UBI Banca (MILAN:UBI) was down 4.00% or 0.295 points to 7.075.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 437 to 46 and 3 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.76% or 0.43 to $56.28 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.27% or 0.17 to hit $64.16 a barrel, while the June Gold contract rose 0.34% or 4.10 to trade at $1202.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.22% to 1.0784, while EUR/GBP rose 0.18% to 0.7219.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.09% at 97.78.