Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Financials, Telecoms and Technology sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 2.87%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Unicredit (MI:CRDI), which rose 13.45% or 0.2490 points to trade at 2.1000 at the close. Meanwhile, UBI Banca (MI:UBI) added 10.86% or 0.2760 points to end at 2.8180 and Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MI:EMII) was up 8.15% or 0.256 points to 3.396 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were FinecoBank Banca Fineco SpA (MI:FBK), which fell 1.22% or 0.07 points to trade at 5.68 at the close. Recordati (MI:RECI) declined 0.60% or 0.17 points to end at 28.13 and Terna (MI:TRN) was down 0.49% or 0.024 points to 4.900.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 287 to 78 and 31 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 4.38% or 1.96 to $46.72 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 4.58% or 2.12 to hit $48.37 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 1.87% or 25.35 to trade at $1331.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.28% to 1.1089, while EUR/GBP fell 1.91% to 0.8351.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.25% at 96.34.