Investing.com – France equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Utilities and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 gained 0.57%, while the SBF 120 index gained 0.55%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin SCA (PA:MICP), which rose 3.01% or 3.55 points to trade at 121.35 at the close. TechnipFMC PLC (PA:FTI) added 2.94% or 0.66 points to end at 22.91 and Carrefour SA (PA:CARR) was up 2.29% or 0.39 points to 17.21 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Kering SA (PA:PRTP), which lost 2.34% or 9.00 points to trade at 375.15 in late trade. Lafargeholcim Ltd (PA:LHN) declined 0.87% or 0.41 points to end at 46.35 and Solvay SA (BR:SOLB) shed 0.46% or 0.55 points to 117.80.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were SES (PA:SESFd) which rose 5.16% to 13.05, Nexans (PA:NEXS) which was up 4.27% to settle at 54.74 and Technicolor (PA:TCH) which gained 3.33% to close at 2.945.
The worst performers were Kering SA (PA:PRTP) which was down 2.34% to 375.15 in late trade, DBV Technologies (PA:DBV) which lost 1.38% to settle at 39.660 and Air France KLM SA (PA:AIRF) which was down 1.12% to 11.490 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 380 to 216 and 95 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 2.18% to 11.65.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.08% or 1.10 to $1295.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.24% or 0.14 to hit $57.97 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.25% or 0.16 to trade at $63.22 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.13% to 1.1883, while EUR/GBP rose 0.52% to 0.8978.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.20% at 93.04.