Investing.com – France equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Financials, Healthcare and Foods & Drugs sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 lost 0.08%, while the SBF 120 index declined 0.14%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Airbus Group SE (PA:AIR), which rose 1.74% or 2.06 points to trade at 120.74 at the close. TechnipFMC PLC (PA:FTI) added 1.13% or 0.25 points to end at 22.46 and Dassault Systemes SE (PA:DAST) was up 1.01% or 1.35 points to 134.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Valeo SA (PA:VLOF), which lost 2.14% or 0.64 points to trade at 29.22 in late trade. Safran SA (PA:SAF) declined 1.95% or 2.45 points to end at 123.00 and Publicis Groupe SA (PA:PUBP) shed 1.50% or 0.70 points to 45.83.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Genfit (PA:GNFT) which rose 5.87% to 22.740, DBV Technologies (PA:DBV) which was up 5.81% to settle at 16.400 and Euronext (PA:ENX) which gained 1.85% to close at 57.70.
The worst performers were ALD SA (PA:ALDA) which was down 4.03% to 12.86 in late trade, Elior Group (PA:ELIOR) which lost 2.92% to settle at 11.97 and Television Francaise 1 SA (PA:TFFP) which was down 2.56% to 8.195 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 305 to 278 and 87 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was up 4.66% to 14.13.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.49% or 6.35 to $1301.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 2.14% or 1.35 to hit $64.43 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 1.05% or 0.74 to trade at $71.08 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.41% to 1.1260, while EUR/GBP rose 0.17% to 0.8620.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.36% at 96.648.