Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Financials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 1.30%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Intesa Sanpaolo (MI:ISP), which rose 2.66% or 0.058 points to trade at 2.238 at the close. Meanwhile, ENI (MI:ENI) added 2.61% or 0.37 points to end at 14.53 and Telecom Italia (MI:TLIT) was up 2.57% or 0.0205 points to 0.8185 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Moncler SpA (MI:MONC), which fell 1.12% or 0.20 points to trade at 17.72 at the close. Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU) declined 0.98% or 0.23 points to end at 23.23 and Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP) was down 0.37% or 0.09 points to 24.14.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 205 to 125 and 19 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for March delivery was up 0.26% or 0.14 to $53.68 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 0.32% or 0.18 to hit $56.74 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.23% or 2.75 to trade at $1222.15 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.28% to 1.0789, while EUR/GBP rose 0.45% to 0.8626.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.23% at 99.60.