Investing.com – France equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Healthcare, Basic Materials and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 lost 0.03%, while the SBF 120 index fell 0.04%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Airbus Group SE (PA:AIR), which rose 4.65% or 3.59 points to trade at 80.79 at the close. Danone SA (PA:DANO) added 2.63% or 1.81 points to end at 70.70 and Publicis Groupe SA (PA:PUBP) was up 2.51% or 1.51 points to 61.70 in late trade.
Biggest losers included TechnipFMC PLC (PA:FTI), which lost 1.88% or 0.42 points to trade at 22.13 in late trade. Lafargeholcim Ltd (PA:LHN) declined 1.84% or 0.91 points to end at 48.47 and Solvay SA (BR:SOLB) shed 1.77% or 2.25 points to 124.60.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Airbus Group SE (PA:AIR) which rose 4.65% to 80.79, Ipsen (PA:IPN) which was up 4.43% to settle at 117.90 and Technicolor (PA:TCH) which gained 2.72% to close at 2.943.
The worst performers were Sartorius Stedim Biotech (PA:STDM) which was down 13.59% to 51.50 in late trade, Remy Cointreau (PA:RCOP) which lost 2.66% to settle at 106.10 and Iliad (PA:ILD) which was down 2.60% to 218.85 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 316 to 302 and 70 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 4.98% to 10.81.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 1.14% or 14.90 to $1288.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.83% or 0.43 to hit $51.44 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.76% or 0.44 to trade at $57.38 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.36% to 1.1754, while EUR/GBP rose 0.18% to 0.8917.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.35% at 93.47.