– Italy stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Travel & Leisure , Chemicals and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.

At the close in Milan, the Italy 40 gained 0.13%.

The best performers of the session on the Italy 40 were Leonardo SpA (BIT: LDOF ), which rose 1.95% or 0.49 points to trade at 25.60 at the close. Meanwhile, Saipem SpA (BIT: SPMI ) added 1.89% or 0.04 points to end at 2.37 and Unipol Gruppo Finanziario Spa (BIT: UNPI ) was up 1.65% or 0.19 points to 11.68 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Nexi SpA (BIT: NEXII ), which fell 3.25% or 0.18 points to trade at 5.30 at the close. Telecom Italia (BIT: TLIT ) unchanged 1.67% or 0.00 points to end at 0.23 and Moncler SpA (BIT: MONC ) was down 1.38% or 0.65 points to 46.55.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Milan Stock Exchange by 261 to 259 and 37 ended unchanged.

Crude oil for January delivery was up 1.29% or 0.89 to $69.64 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 1.19% or 0.87 to hit $73.68 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.52% or 13.80 to trade at $2,665.50 a troy ounce.

EUR/USD was down 0.73% to 1.05, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.16% to 0.83.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.44% at 107.09.