Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Financials, Utilities and Travel & Leisure sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 gained 0.74%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP), which rose 8.73% or 2.04 points to trade at 25.41 at the close. Meanwhile, Banco Bpm (MI:BAMI) added 3.79% or 0.102 points to end at 2.796 and Intesa Sanpaolo (MI:ISP) was up 3.52% or 0.092 points to 2.708 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were STMicroelectronics (MI:STM), which fell 3.28% or 0.440 points to trade at 12.960 at the close. Prysmian (MI:PRY) declined 1.28% or 0.34 points to end at 26.20 and Telecom Italia (MI:TLIT) was down 1.10% or 0.0090 points to 0.8060.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 214 to 143 and 15 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.77% or 0.33 to $43.34 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.57% or 0.26 to hit $46.01 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.92% or 11.59 to trade at $1244.81 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.09% to 1.1185, while EUR/GBP fell 0.03% to 0.8796.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 97.06.