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France shares higher at close of trade

Published 27/02/2015, 17:35
© Reuters.  France shares higher at close of trade
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Investing.com – France equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Aerospace & Defense, Gas Water and Oil & Gas Producers sectors propelled shares higher.

At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 rose 0.83% to hit a new 5-year high, while the SBF 120 index climbed 0.74%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Airbus Group (PARIS:AIR), which rose 7.17% or 3.70 points to trade at 55.33 at the close. Veolia Environnement (PARIS:VIE) added 2.47% or 0.420 points to end at 17.400 and Solvay (BRU:SOLB) was up 2.43% or 3.15 points to 132.80 in late trade.

Biggest losers included Alcatel-Lucent (PARIS:ALUA), which lost 1.24% or 0.044 points to trade at 3.497 in late trade. Unibail-Rodamco (AMS:UNBP) declined 1.21% or 3.15 points to end at 257.30 and Accor (PARIS:ACCP) shed 1.15% or 0.55 points to 46.83.

The top performers on the SBF 120 were Airbus Group (PARIS:AIR) which rose 7.17% to 55.33, Sopra Steria Group SA (PARIS:SOPR) which was up 7.06% to settle at 78.05 and Suez Environnement (PARIS:SEVI) which gained 3.20% to close at 15.945.

The worst performers were Genfit (PARIS:GNFT) which was down 4.60% to 60.000 in late trade, Klepierre (PARIS:LOIM) which lost 2.37% to settle at 43.69 and Ubisoft Entertainment (PARIS:UBIP) which was down 1.47% to 16.415 at the close.

Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 531 to 381 and 52 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.

The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was up 3.42% to 16.80.

In commodities trading, Gold for April delivery was up 0.32% or 3.90 to $1214.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude Oil for delivery in April rose 2.14% or 1.03 to hit $49.20 a barrel, while the April Brent Oil contract rose 2.82% or 1.70 to trade at $61.74 a barrel.

EUR/USD was down 0.04% to 1.1194, while EUR/GBP fell 0.25% to 0.7250.

The US Dollar Index was down 0.03% at 95.33.

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