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France shares higher at close of trade; CAC 40 up 0.23%
Published May 16, 2018 02:35
© Reuters. France shares higher at close of trade; CAC 40 up 0.23%
Investing.com – France equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Oil & Gas and Healthcare sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 added 0.23%, while the SBF 120 index gained 0.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Atos SE (PA:ATOS), which rose 1.97% or 2.20 points to trade at 113.60 at the close. Kering SA (PA:PRTP) added 1.77% or 8.10 points to end at 466.70 and Lafargeholcim Ltd (PA:LHN) was up 1.62% or 0.71 points to 44.57 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Orange SA (PA:ORAN), which lost 2.22% or 0.33 points to trade at 14.68 in late trade. Vivendi SA (PA:VIV) declined 1.15% or 0.27 points to end at 23.16 and Bouygues SA (PA:BOUY) shed 1.08% or 0.46 points to 42.07.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Trigano (PA:TRIA) which rose 10.51% to 167.20, DBV Technologies (PA:DBV) which was up 3.13% to settle at 40.840 and Worldline SA (PA:WLN) which gained 2.12% to close at 44.340.
The worst performers were Iliad (PA:ILD) which was down 19.52% to 133.20 in late trade, Eutelsat Communications (PA:ETL) which lost 12.74% to settle at 16.08 and Ingenico Group (PA:INGC) which was down 6.05% to 69.24 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 305 to 255 and 91 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 1.27% to 11.38.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 1.97% or 26.00 to $1292.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.14% or 0.10 to hit $70.86 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.86% or 0.67 to trade at $78.90 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.45% to 1.1873, while EUR/GBP fell 0.22% to 0.8781.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.42% at 92.94.
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