Investing.com – Italy stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Financials and Chemicals sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 fell 1.30%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were CNH Industrial NV (MI:CNHI), which rose 1.00% or 0.110 points to trade at 11.160 at the close. Meanwhile, STMicroelectronics (MI:STM) added 0.86% or 0.160 points to end at 18.780 and Generali (MI:GASI) was up 0.46% or 0.07 points to 15.36 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bper Banca SpA (MI:EMII), which fell 6.30% or 0.286 points to trade at 4.252 at the close. UniCredit SpA (MI:CRDI) declined 4.65% or 0.8100 points to end at 16.6000 and Banco Bpm (MI:BAMI) was down 4.52% or 0.124 points to 2.620.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 236 to 127 and 24 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.72% or 0.41 to $56.73 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 1.18% or 0.75 to hit $62.59 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.44% or 5.50 to trade at $1247.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.16% to 1.1761, while EUR/GBP fell 0.17% to 0.8802.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.16% at 93.91.