Investing.com – France equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Industrials, Basic Materials and Healthcare sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 gained 0.98%, while the SBF 120 index gained 1.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Solvay SA (BR:SOLB), which rose 2.93% or 3.25 points to trade at 114.35 at the close. Safran SA (PA:SAF) added 2.61% or 2.14 points to end at 84.14 and STMicroelectronics NV (PA:STM) was up 2.52% or 0.470 points to 19.085 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Engie SA (PA:ENGIE), which lost 0.41% or 0.06 points to trade at 13.20 in late trade. Vivendi SA (PA:VIV) unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 points to end at 21.00 and Danone SA (PA:DANO) gained 0.14% or 0.09 points to 64.05.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Altran Technologies (PA:ALTT) which rose 5.54% to 12.580, DBV Technologies (PA:DBV) which was up 4.80% to settle at 37.520 and Sartorius Stedim Biotech (PA:STDM) which gained 3.92% to close at 71.65.
The worst performers were SES (PA:SESFd) which was down 2.77% to 11.77 in late trade, Neopost (PA:NPOS) which lost 2.71% to settle at 20.84 and Eutelsat Communications (PA:ETL) which was down 1.62% to 16.36 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 405 to 144 and 94 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 12.88% to 17.62.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.83% or 11.30 to $1343.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.11% or 0.07 to hit $65.48 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.14% or 0.10 to trade at $69.62 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.25% to 1.2412, while EUR/GBP rose 0.21% to 0.8764.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.33% at 88.93.