Investing.com – France equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Gas & Water and General Financial sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 added 1.06%, while the SBF 120 index added 1.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Publicis Groupe SA (PA:PUBP), which rose 3.17% or 1.50 points to trade at 48.78 at the close. Atos SE (PA:ATOS) added 2.95% or 2.30 points to end at 80.30 and TechnipFMC PLC (PA:FTI) was up 2.88% or 0.56 points to 20.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ArcelorMittal SA (AS:MT), which lost 1.13% or 0.218 points to trade at 19.030 in late trade. Pernod Ricard SA (PA:PERP) declined 0.50% or 0.75 points to end at 149.80 and Carrefour SA (PA:CARR) gained 0.11% or 0.02 points to 17.50.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were CGG SA (PA:GEPH) which rose 7.37% to 1.545, Technicolor (PA:TCH) which was up 6.92% to settle at 0.974 and Worldline SA (PA:WLN) which gained 4.29% to close at 51.250.
The worst performers were Eurofins Scientific (PA:EUFI) which was down 4.61% to 302.20 in late trade, Groupe FNAC (PA:FNAC) which lost 3.07% to settle at 67.950 and Vallourec (PA:VLLP) which was down 2.39% to 1.450 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 344 to 234 and 102 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 6.16% to 15.98.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.47% or 6.15 to $1312.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 1.29% or 0.68 to hit $52.04 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.77% or 0.48 to trade at $61.62 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.45% to 1.1278, while EUR/GBP rose 0.29% to 0.8770.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.45% at 96.850.