Investing.com – France equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Basic Materials and Utilities sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 added 0.83%, while the SBF 120 index climbed 0.76%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Publicis Groupe SA (PA:PUBP), which rose 2.30% or 1.26 points to trade at 56.04 at the close. LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE (PA:LVMH) added 2.28% or 6.65 points to end at 297.80 and Airbus Group SE (PA:AIR) was up 2.22% or 2.34 points to 107.56 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Valeo SA (PA:VLOF), which lost 0.36% or 0.14 points to trade at 39.23 in late trade. Vinci SA (PA:SGEF) declined 0.27% or 0.22 points to end at 81.22 and Vivendi SA (PA:VIV) shed 0.19% or 0.04 points to 21.31.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were JC Decaux SA (PA:JCDX) which rose 7.14% to 27.90, Elior Group (PA:ELIOR) which was up 4.26% to settle at 13.96 and Europcar Groupe SA (PA:EUCAR) which gained 3.33% to close at 8.38.
The worst performers were DBV Technologies (PA:DBV) which was down 4.32% to 31.480 in late trade, Groupe Eurotunnel (PA:GETP) which lost 1.90% to settle at 10.815 and Euronext (PA:ENX) which was down 1.14% to 52.15 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 323 to 204 and 127 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 14.38% to 15.24.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.11% or 1.30 to $1186.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.57% or 0.37 to hit $65.38 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 0.66% or 0.47 to trade at $71.23 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.26% to 1.1377, while EUR/GBP rose 0.10% to 0.8947.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 96.47.