Investing.com – France equities were mixed at the close on Friday, as gains in the Consumer Services, Technology and Healthcare sectors propelled shares higher while losses in the Oil & Gas, Industrials and Basic Materials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 added 0.32%, while the SBF 120 index lost 0.06%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Kering SA (PA:PRTP), which rose 5.51% or 22.00 points to trade at 421.00 at the close. Valeo SA (PA:VLOF) added 4.24% or 1.17 points to end at 28.75 and LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE (PA:LVMH) was up 3.43% or 9.25 points to 279.05 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sodexo (PA:EXHO), which lost 4.08% or 3.70 points to trade at 87.00 in late trade. Sanofi SA (PA:SASY) declined 1.59% or 1.26 points to end at 77.75 and Compagnie de Saint Gobain SA (PA:SGOB) shed 1.35% or 0.45 points to 32.91.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Plastic Omnium (PA:PLOF) which rose 7.64% to 26.35, Trigano (PA:TRIA) which was up 6.96% to settle at 96.00 and Faurecia (PA:EPED) which gained 6.65% to close at 46.32.
The worst performers were Sodexo (PA:EXHO) which was down 4.08% to 87.00 in late trade, Altran Technologies (PA:ALTT) which lost 3.39% to settle at 8.545 and Iliad (PA:ILD) which was down 3.26% to 105.50 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 380 to 200 and 85 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 5.87% to 18.61.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.18% or 2.20 to $1233.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.72% or 0.46 to hit $63.23 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.11% or 0.08 to trade at $72.81 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.21% to 1.1384, while EUR/GBP rose 0.11% to 0.8779.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.25% at 96.32.