Investing.com – France stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Travel & Leisure, Support Services and Consumer Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 gained 0.17%, while the SBF 120 index gained 0.29%.
The best performers of the session on the CAC 40 were ArcelorMittal SA (AS:ISPA), which rose 2.45% or 0.12 points to trade at 4.94 at the close. Meanwhile, Veolia Environnement VE SA (PA:VIE) added 1.69% or 0.370 points to end at 22.265 and Unibail Rodamco SE (AS:UNBP) was up 1.49% or 3.70 points to 251.30 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Safran SA (PA:SAF), which fell 1.04% or 0.70 points to trade at 66.87 at the close. Carrefour SA (PA:CARR) declined 0.98% or 0.29 points to end at 29.23 and Sanofi SA (PA:SASY) was down 0.79% or 0.66 points to 82.42.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Sodexo (PA:EXHO) which rose 9.85% to 88.20, Edenred (PA:EDEN) which was up 5.67% to settle at 18.46 and Casino Guichard (PA:CASP) which gained 3.85% to close at 55.03.
The worst performers were Korian Medica SA (PA:KORI) which was down 8.29% to 32.925 in late trade, Genfit (PA:GNFT) which lost 2.35% to settle at 37.990 and Bollore SA (PA:BOLL) which was down 2.21% to 4.29 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Paris Stock Exchange by 414 to 299 and 64 ended unchanged.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 3.88% to 22.62.
Gold for December delivery was up 1.11% or 11.90 to $1080.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.83% or 0.35 to hit $41.60 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.03% or 0.01 to trade at $44.12 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.70% to 1.0735, while EUR/GBP rose 0.24% to 0.7016.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.65% at 99.02.