Investing.com – Italy stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Telecoms, Technology and Financials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 lost 0.87%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MI:EMII), which rose 1.89% or 0.082 points to trade at 4.428 at the close. Meanwhile, A2A (MI:A2) added 0.63% or 0.008 points to end at 1.282 and Prysmian (MI:PRY) was up 0.46% or 0.10 points to 21.77 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU), which fell 4.14% or 0.74 points to trade at 17.14 at the close. Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP) declined 3.44% or 0.89 points to end at 24.95 and Leonardo Finmeccanica SpA (MI:LDOF) was down 3.18% or 0.320 points to 9.730.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 281 to 119 and 17 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for July delivery was down 1.25% or 0.64 to $50.59 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 1.01% or 0.53 to hit $51.98 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 0.92% or 11.65 to trade at $1273.95 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was down 0.68% to 1.1318, while EUR/GBP fell 0.39% to 0.7823.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.46% at 94.02.