Investing.com – France equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Financials, Consumer Services and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 lost 0.94%, while the SBF 120 index lost 0.95%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Essilor International Compagnie Generale d’Optique SA (PA:ESSI), which rose 0.83% or 0.90 points to trade at 108.75 at the close. Sanofi SA (PA:SASY) added 0.56% or 0.45 points to end at 80.58 and Cap Gemini SA (PA:CAPP) was up 0.05% or 0.04 points to 80.95 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Vivendi SA (PA:VIV), which lost 3.94% or 0.67 points to trade at 16.32 in late trade. Peugeot SA (PA:PEUP) declined 2.82% or 0.52 points to end at 17.93 and Solvay SA (BR:SOLB) shed 2.40% or 2.75 points to 111.95.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Ingenico Group (PA:INGC) which rose 7.23% to 84.95, Ipsos (PA:ISOS) which was up 2.41% to settle at 30.22 and Edenred (PA:EDEN) which gained 1.43% to close at 21.30.
The worst performers were GTT (PA:GTT) which was down 8.67% to 35.17 in late trade, Vallourec (PA:VLLP) which lost 7.01% to settle at 5.323 and CGG SA (PA:GEPH) which was down 4.98% to 8.3900 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 432 to 177 and 91 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was up 4.79% to 16.09.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.56% or 6.95 to $1258.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.61% or 0.33 to hit $54.12 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.69% or 0.39 to trade at $56.19 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.06% to 1.0587, while EUR/GBP rose 0.65% to 0.8482.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.03% at 100.92.