Investing.com – Italy stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Chemicals, Financials and Technology sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 declined 0.74%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were FinecoBank Banca Fineco SpA (MI:FBK), which rose 1.57% or 0.10 points to trade at 6.46 at the close. Meanwhile, Italgas SpA (MI:IG) added 1.38% or 0.06 points to end at 4.25 and Luxottica Group (MI:LUX) was up 1.27% or 0.65 points to 51.75 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Banco Bpm (MI:BAMI), which fell 3.14% or 0.080 points to trade at 2.470 at the close. Mediobanca (MI:MDBI) declined 2.61% or 0.210 points to end at 7.850 and Moncler SpA (MI:MONC) was down 2.30% or 0.50 points to 21.28.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 202 to 151 and 16 ended unchanged.
Shares in Italgas SpA (MI:IG) rose to all time highs; up 1.38% or 0.06 to 4.25.
Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.58% or 0.31 to $53.09 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 0.75% or 0.42 to hit $55.81 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.14% or 1.80 to trade at $1276.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.02% to 1.0606, while EUR/GBP fell 0.04% to 0.8487.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 100.61.