Investing.com – France equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Gas & Water, General Financial and Foods & Drugs sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 fell 0.05%, while the SBF 120 index fell 0.14%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Air Liquide SA (PA:AIRP), which rose 2.50% or 2.60 points to trade at 106.75 at the close. Total SA (PA:TOTF) added 1.50% or 0.72 points to end at 49.16 and Sanofi SA (PA:SASY) was up 1.19% or 0.94 points to 79.81 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Carrefour SA (PA:CARR), which lost 3.14% or 0.52 points to trade at 15.90 in late trade. Bouygues SA (PA:BOUY) declined 2.25% or 0.78 points to end at 33.96 and WFD Unibail Rodamco NV (AS:URW) shed 1.82% or 2.82 points to 151.84.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were SES (PA:SESFd) which rose 4.53% to 19.15, Eutelsat Communications SA (PA:ETL) which was up 3.83% to settle at 18.82 and Air Liquide SA (PA:AIRP) which gained 2.50% to close at 106.75.
The worst performers were Faurecia (PA:EPED) which was down 6.26% to 34.42 in late trade, CGG SA (PA:GEPH) which lost 4.39% to settle at 1.328 and Iliad (PA:ILD) which was down 4.37% to 119.15 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 325 to 261 and 86 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 5.80% to 18.41.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.25% or 3.10 to $1227.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.35% or 0.18 to hit $51.27 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.47% or 0.28 to trade at $59.63 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.63% to 1.1321, while EUR/GBP fell 0.45% to 0.8870.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.43% at 97.110.