Italy shares higher at close of trade; Investing.com Italy 40 up 0.13%

Investing.com – Italy equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Travel&Leisure, Technology and Chemicals sectors propelled shares higher.

At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 added 0.13%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Iveco Group NV (BIT:IVG), which rose 10.73% or 0.99 points to trade at 10.20 at the close. Banco Bpm SpA (BIT:BAMI) added 8.97% or 0.57 points to end at 6.88 and Interpump Group (BIT:ITPG) was up 5.96% or 2.44 points to 43.36 in late trade.

Biggest losers included Prysmian SpA (BIT:PRY), which lost 3.77% or 2.38 points to trade at 60.82 in late trade. Snam SpA (BIT:SRG) declined 3.14% or 0.14 points to end at 4.19 and Intesa Sanpaolo SpA (BIT:ISP) shed 2.95% or 0.12 points to 3.86.

Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 328 to 216 and 51 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.

In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was up 0.53% or 0.38 to $72.07 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 0.61% or 0.46 to hit $75.38 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 1.04% or 27.70 to trade at $2,704.00 a troy ounce.

EUR/USD was up 0.59% to 1.08, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.19% to 0.83.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.61% at 104.35.