Investing.com – France equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Technology, Healthcare and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 fell 0.38%, while the SBF 120 index fell 0.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Dassault Systemes (PA:DAST), which rose 2.10% or 2.30 points to trade at 112.00 at the close. Vivendi SA (PA:VIV) added 0.89% or 0.20 points to end at 22.59 and Sanofi SA (PA:SASY) was up 0.88% or 0.66 points to 76.06 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Societe Generale SA (PA:SOGN), which lost 2.78% or 0.73 points to trade at 25.75 in late trade. Valeo SA (PA:VLOF) declined 2.73% or 0.74 points to end at 26.36 and Renault SA (PA:RENA) shed 2.07% or 1.27 points to 60.14.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were DBV Technologies (PA:DBV) which rose 3.35% to 12.030, Worldline SA (PA:WLN) which was up 3.16% to settle at 50.300 and Nexity (PA:NEXI) which gained 2.93% to close at 41.44.
The worst performers were Vallourec (PA:VLLP) which was down 7.16% to 1.440 in late trade, Technicolor (PA:TCH) which lost 4.16% to settle at 0.933 and Maisons du Monde SAS (PA:MDM) which was down 4.07% to 23.080 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 331 to 243 and 94 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was up 2.87% to 14.18.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.28% or 3.65 to $1318.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 1.70% or 0.94 to hit $54.32 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.45% or 0.28 to trade at $62.47 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.18% to 1.1434, while EUR/GBP rose 0.07% to 0.8759.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.27% at 95.558.