Investing.com – France equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Consumer Services and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 gained 0.43%, while the SBF 120 index gained 0.32%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin SCA (PA:MICP), which rose 2.59% or 2.70 points to trade at 106.80 at the close. LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE (PA:LVMH) added 2.28% or 6.60 points to end at 295.95 and Airbus Group SE (PA:AIR) was up 2.15% or 2.26 points to 107.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Orange SA (PA:ORAN), which lost 0.78% or 0.12 points to trade at 14.60 in late trade. Vinci SA (PA:SGEF) declined 0.65% or 0.56 points to end at 85.66 and Sanofi SA (PA:SASY) shed 0.44% or 0.32 points to 71.91.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were SES (PA:SESFd) which rose 3.95% to 17.73, Worldline SA (PA:WLN) which was up 3.06% to settle at 52.150 and CGG SA (PA:GEPH) which gained 2.94% to close at 2.314.
The worst performers were Altran Technologies (PA:ALTT) which was down 27.20% to 8.721 in late trade, Rexel (PA:RXL) which lost 3.90% to settle at 11.96 and Iliad (PA:ILD) which was down 1.78% to 138.05 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 309 to 260 and 100 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 5.88% to 11.65.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.36% or 4.50 to $1242.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.91% or 0.64 to hit $70.97 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 1.25% or 0.93 to trade at $75.38 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.02% to 1.1669, while EUR/GBP fell 0.06% to 0.8832.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.02% at 94.59.