Investing.com – Italy stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Healthcare and Industrials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 lost 0.25%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Leonardo SpA (MI:LDOF), which rose 1.84% or 0.240 points to trade at 13.300 at the close. Meanwhile, Generali (MI:GASI) added 0.82% or 0.12 points to end at 14.77 and Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU) was up 0.81% or 0.18 points to 22.53 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MI:EMII), which fell 1.86% or 0.090 points to trade at 4.754 at the close. Italgas SpA (MI:IG) declined 1.84% or 0.08 points to end at 4.06 and Atlantia (MI:ATL) was down 1.84% or 0.45 points to 24.02.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 185 to 170 and 15 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was up 2.03% or 0.98 to $49.35 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 1.87% or 0.96 to hit $52.38 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.37% or 4.65 to trade at $1250.95 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.55% to 1.0754, while EUR/GBP fell 0.16% to 0.8669.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.39% at 99.92.