Investing.com – Italy stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Financials and Industrials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 lost 0.14%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Freni Brembo SpA (MI:BRBI), which rose 1.72% or 0.23 points to trade at 13.57 at the close. Meanwhile, STMicroelectronics (MI:STM) added 1.23% or 0.160 points to end at 13.150 and Prysmian (MI:PRY) was up 1.19% or 0.31 points to 26.47 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Mediaset (MI:MS), which fell 3.07% or 0.102 points to trade at 3.220 at the close. FinecoBank Banca Fineco SpA (MI:FBK) declined 2.81% or 0.21 points to end at 7.27 and Tenaris (MI:TENR) was down 2.61% or 0.36 points to 13.43.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 186 to 155 and 22 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 2.50% or 1.14 to $44.38 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 2.49% or 1.20 to hit $46.91 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 1.01% or 12.40 to trade at $1210.90 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.18% to 1.1403, while EUR/GBP rose 0.51% to 0.8853.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.23% at 95.80.