Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Technology, Financials and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the FTSE MIB fell 1.15%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the FTSE MIB were Mediolanum (MILAN:MED), which rose 2.59% or 0.205 points to trade at 8.120 at the close. Prysmian (MILAN:PRY) added 1.21% or 0.23 points to end at 19.20 and Buzzi Unicem (MILAN:BZU) was up 1.03% or 0.15 points to 14.74 in late trade.
Biggest losers included STMicroelectronics (MILAN:STM), which lost 3.74% or 0.330 points to trade at 8.500 in late trade. UBI Banca (MILAN:UBI) declined 3.21% or 0.240 points to end at 7.230 and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (MILAN:FCHA) shed 3.07% or 0.470 points to 14.840.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 299 to 180 and 2 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was up 0.33% or 0.19 to $57.18 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.29% or 0.18 to hit $65.02 a barrel, while the June Gold contract rose 0.81% or 9.80 to trade at $1213.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.67% to 1.0963, while EUR/GBP rose 0.16% to 0.7161.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.61% at 96.31.