Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Travel & Leisure, Telecoms and Financials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 0.61%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MI:EMII), which rose 3.33% or 0.146 points to trade at 4.536 at the close. Meanwhile, Poste Italiane SpA (MI:PST) added 3.19% or 0.200 points to end at 6.475 and UBI Banca (MI:UBI) was up 3.19% or 0.1020 points to 3.3000 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tenaris (MI:TENR), which fell 3.16% or 0.48 points to trade at 14.70 at the close. STMicroelectronics (MI:STM) declined 2.70% or 0.400 points to end at 14.390 and Saipem (MI:SPMI) was down 2.67% or 0.0111 points to 0.4047.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 188 to 157 and 13 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for April delivery was down 2.41% or 1.21 to $49.07 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 2.26% or 1.20 to hit $51.91 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.46% or 5.55 to trade at $1203.85 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.41% to 1.0584, while EUR/GBP rose 0.45% to 0.8702.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.20% at 101.91.