Investing.com – Italy stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Travel & Leisure, Telecoms and Industrials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 rose 3.38%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Azimut Holding (MI:AZMT), which rose 8.18% or 1.41 points to trade at 18.65 at the close. Meanwhile, Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP) added 6.68% or 1.47 points to end at 23.46 and Unipol (MI:UNPI) was up 6.26% or 0.168 points to 2.850 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Poste Italiane SpA (MI:PST), which fell 2.75% or 0.1900 points to trade at 6.7250 at the close. Banco Popolare Sc (MI:BAPO) declined 2.70% or 0.0800 points to end at 2.8820 and Enel (MI:ENEI) was down 1.59% or 0.0640 points to 3.9560.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 330 to 74 and 14 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 2.64% or 1.28 to $49.84 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August rose 2.70% or 1.33 to hit $50.50 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.39% or 5.05 to trade at $1289.75 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.28% to 1.1309, while EUR/GBP fell 1.92% to 0.7702.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.58% at 93.75.