Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Travel & Leisure and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 gained 0.63%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Yoox Net-A-Porter Group SpA (MI:YNAP), which rose 4.23% or 0.88 points to trade at 21.67 at the close. UnipolSai Assicurazioni SpA (MI:US) added 4.08% or 0.055 points to end at 1.402 and Buzzi Unicem (MI:BZU) was up 3.89% or 0.61 points to 16.29 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Unicredit (MI:CRDI), which lost 4.92% or 0.0970 points to trade at 1.8730 in late trade. Banca Pop Emilia Romagna (MI:EMII) declined 4.82% or 0.158 points to end at 3.120 and UBI Banca (MI:UBI) shed 1.94% or 0.0480 points to 2.4260.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 252 to 138 and 31 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 0.27% or 0.13 to $48.20 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.32% or 0.16 to hit $49.55 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 1.34% or 17.75 to trade at $1338.35 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.32% to 1.1141, while EUR/GBP rose 0.79% to 0.8400.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.25% at 95.71.