Investing.com – Italy stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Technology sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 declined 0.37%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Banca Popolare di Milano Scarl (MI:PMII), which rose 4.91% or 0.0315 points to trade at 0.6730 at the close. Meanwhile, Unicredit (MI:CRDI) added 2.32% or 0.0840 points to end at 3.7000 and A2A (MI:A2) was up 2.20% or 0.023 points to 1.070 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP), which fell 5.19% or 1.39 points to trade at 25.41 at the close. Saipem (MI:SPMI) declined 3.91% or 0.0146 points to end at 0.3589 and Moncler SpA (MI:MONC) was down 3.69% or 0.58 points to 15.12.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 241 to 171 and 21 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for April delivery was down 1.44% or 0.55 to $37.74 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 2.48% or 1.02 to hit $40.05 a barrel, while the April Gold contract rose 1.03% or 12.90 to trade at $1270.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 1.74% to 1.1191, while EUR/GBP rose 0.86% to 0.7819.
The US Dollar Index was down 1.14% at 96.08.