Investing.com – France equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Consumer Services, Consumer Goods and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 rose 0.01%, while the SBF 120 index added 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Sodexo (PA:EXHO), which rose 1.86% or 1.74 points to trade at 95.30 at the close. Kering SA (PA:PRTP) added 1.81% or 8.40 points to end at 472.90 and Peugeot SA (PA:PEUP) was up 1.77% or 0.44 points to 25.23 in late trade.
Biggest losers included STMicroelectronics NV (PA:STM), which lost 1.25% or 0.240 points to trade at 18.960 in late trade. Sanofi SA (PA:SASY) declined 1.07% or 0.79 points to end at 73.16 and Publicis Groupe SA (PA:PUBP) shed 1.04% or 0.58 points to 55.00.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Worldline SA (PA:WLN) which rose 2.33% to 50.450, Eurofins Scientific (PA:EUFI) which was up 2.27% to settle at 451.00 and Sodexo (PA:EXHO) which gained 1.86% to close at 95.30.
The worst performers were Technicolor (PA:TCH) which was down 2.88% to 1.214 in late trade, Vicat (PA:VCTP) which lost 1.88% to settle at 54.95 and Rexel (PA:RXL) which was down 1.40% to 13.43 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 285 to 267 and 118 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 5.85% to 12.06.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.01% or 0.10 to $1220.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $66.94 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 0.01% or 0.01 to trade at $72.29 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.42% to 1.1561, while EUR/GBP fell 0.20% to 0.8994.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.31% at 95.24.