Italy stocks lower at close of trade; Investing.com Italy 40 down 1.30%

Investing.com – Italy stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Financials , Telecoms and Industrials sectors led shares lower.

At the close in Milan, the Investing.com Italy 40 fell 1.30%.

The best performers of the session on the Investing.com Italy 40 were Leonardo SpA (BIT:LDOF ), which rose 1.37% or 0.34 points to trade at 25.22 at the close. Meanwhile, Hera (BIT:HRA ) added 0.47% or 0.02 points to end at 3.39 and Inwit (BIT:INWT ) was up 0.31% or 0.03 points to 9.56 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Telecom Italia (BIT:TLIT ), which fell 4.14% or 0.01 points to trade at 0.23 at the close. Banca Popolare di Sondrio ScpA (BIT:BPSI ) declined 3.85% or 0.29 points to end at 7.38 and FinecoBank Banca Fineco SpA (BIT:FBK ) was down 3.63% or 0.55 points to 14.47.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 359 to 152 and 57 ended unchanged.

Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.16% or 0.11 to $69.06 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 0.22% or 0.16 to hit $73.14 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.66% or 17.35 to trade at $2,631.95 a troy ounce.

EUR/USD was unchanged 0.11% to 1.06, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.04% to 0.84.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.05% at 106.15.

Source: Investing.com