Investing.com – France equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Technology, Industrials and Healthcare sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 gained 1.53%, while the SBF 120 index gained 1.67%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Safran SA (PA:SAF), which rose 4.14% or 4.45 points to trade at 111.95 at the close. Dassault Systemes (PA:DAST) added 4.03% or 4.50 points to end at 116.25 and Airbus Group SE (PA:AIR) was up 4.00% or 3.91 points to 101.72 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Carrefour SA (PA:CARR), which lost 2.17% or 0.34 points to trade at 15.54 in late trade. AXA SA (PA:AXAF) declined 0.29% or 0.07 points to end at 22.52 and Credit Agricole SA (PA:CAGR) gained 0.17% or 0.020 points to 12.132.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Altran Technologies (PA:ALTT) which rose 6.68% to 7.590, Teleperformance (PA:ROCH) which was up 5.66% to settle at 155.00 and DBV Technologies (PA:DBV) which gained 5.55% to close at 33.500.
The worst performers were Carrefour SA (PA:CARR) which was down 2.17% to 15.54 in late trade, SES (PA:SESFd) which lost 0.59% to settle at 20.08 and Neopost (PA:NPOS) which was down 0.57% to 27.76 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 397 to 167 and 89 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 6.52% to 16.98.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.12% or 1.50 to $1231.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.13% or 0.09 to hit $71.69 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.24% or 0.19 to trade at $80.97 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.04% to 1.1585, while EUR/GBP fell 0.17% to 0.8788.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.07% at 94.70.