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Italy stocks higher at close of trade; Investing.com Italy 40 up 0.18%

Published 02/16/2017, 11:55 AM
Updated 02/16/2017, 11:55 AM
© Reuters.  Italy stocks higher at close of trade; Investing.com Italy 40 up 0.18%

© Reuters. Italy stocks higher at close of trade; Investing.com Italy 40 up 0.18%

Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Technology, Utilities and Healthcare sectors led shares higher.

At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 added 0.18%.

The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Saipem (MI:SPMI), which rose 4.10% or 0.0186 points to trade at 0.4719 at the close. Meanwhile, Recordati (MI:RECI) added 2.16% or 0.61 points to end at 28.87 and STMicroelectronics (MI:STM) was up 1.75% or 0.230 points to 13.360 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MI:EMII), which fell 3.45% or 0.166 points to trade at 4.644 at the close. UBI Banca (MI:UBI) declined 2.44% or 0.0780 points to end at 3.1240 and UniCredit SpA (MI:CRDI) was down 2.24% or 0.2900 points to 12.6300.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 174 to 158 and 15 ended unchanged.

Crude oil for March delivery was down 0.32% or 0.17 to $52.94 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 0.74% or 0.41 to hit $55.34 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.68% or 8.40 to trade at $1241.50 a troy ounce.

EUR/USD was up 0.59% to 1.0662, while EUR/GBP rose 0.46% to 0.8545.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.53% at 100.54.

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