Investing.com – Italy stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Financials and Technology sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 fell 1.56%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP), which rose 3.52% or 0.90 points to trade at 26.50 at the close. Meanwhile, Mediaset (MI:MS) added 2.62% or 0.094 points to end at 3.684 and Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA (MI:BMPS) was up 1.16% or 0.0060 points to 0.5225 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Unicredit (MI:CRDI), which fell 5.15% or 0.1620 points to trade at 2.9820 at the close. Telecom Italia (MI:TLIT) declined 4.73% or 0.0425 points to end at 0.8565 and UBI Banca (MI:UBI) was down 4.40% or 0.1440 points to 3.1260.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 256 to 140 and 16 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was up 3.42% or 1.38 to $41.74 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 3.69% or 1.58 to hit $44.41 a barrel, while the June Gold contract fell 0.02% or 0.30 to trade at $1257.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.20% to 1.1385, while EUR/GBP fell 0.21% to 0.7992.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.12% at 94.08.