Investing.com – France equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Consumer Services and Utilities sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 added 1.82%, while the SBF 120 index added 1.83%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Airbus Group SE (PA:AIR), which rose 3.99% or 3.39 points to trade at 88.40 at the close. LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE (PA:LVMH) added 3.75% or 8.85 points to end at 245.00 and Kering SA (PA:PRTP) was up 3.68% or 13.78 points to 387.98 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sanofi SA (PA:SASY), which lost 1.20% or 0.81 points to trade at 66.71 in late trade. Lafargeholcim Ltd (PA:LHN) added 0.09% or 0.04 points to end at 46.75 and TechnipFMC PLC (PA:FTI) gained 0.24% or 0.06 points to 25.39.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Groupe FNAC (PA:FNAC) which rose 5.66% to 94.200, DBV Technologies (PA:DBV) which was up 5.24% to settle at 35.740 and Amundi SA (PA:AMUN) which gained 4.86% to close at 72.88.
The worst performers were ALD SA (PA:ALDA) which was down 1.54% to 13.43 in late trade, Eutelsat Communications (PA:ETL) which lost 1.33% to settle at 17.11 and Air France KLM SA (PA:AIRF) which was down 1.32% to 11.550 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 540 to 87 and 58 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 28.25% to 17.76.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.69% or 9.20 to $1320.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 2.62% or 1.66 to hit $61.73 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 2.06% or 1.38 to trade at $65.48 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.86% to 1.2270, while EUR/GBP fell 0.28% to 0.8847.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.70% at 90.15.