Investing.com – France equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Basic Materials, Oil & Gas and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 declined 0.15%, while the SBF 120 index fell 0.23%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Carrefour SA (PA:CARR), which rose 6.95% or 1.14 points to trade at 17.47 at the close. Pernod Ricard SA (PA:PERP) added 1.43% or 2.00 points to end at 142.00 and Renault SA (PA:RENA) was up 1.11% or 0.63 points to 57.41 in late trade.
Biggest losers included TechnipFMC PLC (PA:FTI), which lost 2.19% or 0.45 points to trade at 19.91 in late trade. Valeo SA (PA:VLOF) declined 1.98% or 0.52 points to end at 25.68 and Schneider Electric SE (PA:SCHN) shed 1.63% or 0.98 points to 59.18.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Maisons du Monde SAS (PA:MDM) which rose 7.60% to 22.380, Carrefour SA (PA:CARR) which was up 6.95% to settle at 17.47 and Air France KLM SA (PA:AIRF) which gained 3.46% to close at 11.060.
The worst performers were Neopost (PA:NPOS) which was down 17.21% to 21.46 in late trade, Eramet (PA:ERMT) which lost 14.58% to settle at 55.35 and Ingenico Group (PA:INGC) which was down 13.59% to 45.00 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 310 to 248 and 99 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was up 1.60% to 16.79.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.08% or 1.05 to $1284.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 1.49% or 0.79 to hit $52.22 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 1.41% or 0.87 to trade at $60.63 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.32% to 1.1395, while EUR/GBP fell 0.54% to 0.8718.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.26% at 95.713.