Investing.com – France equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Financials and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 lost 0.66%, while the SBF 120 index lost 0.64%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Veolia Environnement VE SA (PA:VIE), which rose 0.62% or 0.120 points to trade at 19.485 at the close. Safran SA (PA:SAF) added 0.36% or 0.29 points to end at 80.07 and Compagnie de Saint Gobain SA (PA:SGOB) was up 0.04% or 0.02 points to 50.02 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Schneider Electric SE (PA:SCHN), which lost 1.71% or 1.19 points to trade at 68.43 in late trade. Unibail Rodamco SE (AS:UNBP) declined 1.65% or 3.90 points to end at 232.25 and Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin SCA (PA:MICP) shed 1.29% or 1.50 points to 115.05.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Electricite de France SA (PA:EDF) which rose 2.75% to 9.99, Television Francaise 1 SA (PA:TFFP) which was up 2.07% to settle at 11.830 and Soitec SA (PA:SOIT) which gained 1.96% to close at 53.020.
The worst performers were Klepierre (PA:LOIM) which was down 2.78% to 37.07 in late trade, Vallourec (PA:VLLP) which lost 2.05% to settle at 5.360 and Nexity (PA:NEXI) which was down 1.95% to 54.34 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 340 to 262 and 100 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was up 6.55% to 13.48.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.15% or 1.97 to $1282.17 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.90% or 0.43 to hit $47.23 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.16% or 0.58 to trade at $49.37 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.25% to 1.1252, while EUR/GBP fell 0.58% to 0.8709.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.18% at 96.78.