Investing.com – France equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Gas & Water and General Financial sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 added 0.69% to hit a new 3-month high, while the SBF 120 index climbed 0.66%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Valeo SA (PA:VLOF), which rose 3.68% or 1.00 points to trade at 28.16 at the close. TechnipFMC PLC (PA:FTI) added 3.59% or 0.75 points to end at 21.62 and Peugeot SA (PA:PEUP) was up 2.83% or 0.61 points to 22.18 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Carrefour SA (PA:CARR), which lost 0.94% or 0.17 points to trade at 17.90 in late trade. Sanofi SA (PA:SASY) declined 0.63% or 0.47 points to end at 74.20 and Atos SE (PA:ATOS) shed 0.26% or 0.22 points to 82.86.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Metropole Television SA (PA:MMTP) which rose 9.34% to 15.69, DBV Technologies (PA:DBV) which was up 6.93% to settle at 14.510 and Air France KLM SA (PA:AIRF) which gained 6.12% to close at 11.010.
The worst performers were Nexity (PA:NEXI) which was down 6.84% to 39.76 in late trade, Vicat (PA:VCTP) which lost 6.52% to settle at 41.28 and Rothschild & Co SCA (PA:ROTH) which was down 2.59% to 28.250 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 314 to 248 and 93 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 2.49% to 14.24.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.25% or 3.35 to $1348.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 1.47% or 0.83 to hit $57.28 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 1.01% or 0.67 to trade at $67.12 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.25% to 1.1368, while EUR/GBP rose 0.10% to 0.8688.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.19% at 96.162.