Investing.com – Italy stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Travel & Leisure, Financials and Technology sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 declined 0.60%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Snam (MI:SRG), which rose 2.88% or 0.145 points to trade at 5.175 at the close. Meanwhile, Prysmian (MI:PRY) added 1.81% or 0.35 points to end at 19.66 and ENI (MI:ENI) was up 1.80% or 0.2400 points to 13.6100 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Banco Popolare Sc (MI:BAPO), which fell 14.19% or 1.1050 points to trade at 6.6800 at the close. Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MI:EMII) declined 6.60% or 0.330 points to end at 4.670 and Mediobanca (MI:MDBI) was down 6.11% or 0.435 points to 6.680.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 242 to 159 and 20 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for April delivery was up 3.72% or 1.43 to $39.89 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 2.36% or 0.95 to hit $41.28 a barrel, while the April Gold contract rose 2.92% or 35.90 to trade at $1265.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.87% to 1.1323, while EUR/GBP fell 0.72% to 0.7814.
The US Dollar Index was down 1.01% at 94.73.