Investing.com – Italy equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the FTSE Italia Oil & Gas, FTSE Italia All Share Chemicals and FTSE Italia All Share Travel & Leisure sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 fell 0.12%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Prysmian SpA (BIT:PRY), which rose 2.11% or 1.36 points to trade at 65.82 at the close. UniCredit SpA (BIT:CRDI) added 1.64% or 0.61 points to end at 37.87 and ERG (BIT:ERG) was up 1.25% or 0.30 points to 24.38 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nexi SpA (BIT:NEXII), which fell 3.11% or 0.19 points to trade at 6.04 in late trade. Stellantis NV (BIT:STLAM) declined 1.50% or 0.21 points to end at 13.78 and Davide Campari Milano SpA (BIT:CPRI) down 1.34% or 0.10 points to 7.23.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones by 244 to 217 and 49 ended unchanged on the Milan Stock Exchange.
Crude oil for November delivery was down 2.08% or 1.49 to $70.07 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 1.62% or 1.21 to hit $73.26 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.15% or 4.05 to trade at $2,681.05 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was unchanged 0.31% to 1.11, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.26% to 0.84.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.35% at 100.51.