Investing.com – France equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Financials, Basic Materials and Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 lost 0.50%, while the SBF 120 index fell 0.47%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Veolia Environnement VE SA (PA:VIE), which rose 2.61% or 0.515 points to trade at 20.220 at the close. Atos SE (PA:ATOS) added 1.37% or 1.50 points to end at 110.60 and Schneider Electric SE (PA:SCHN) was up 0.74% or 0.54 points to 73.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Solvay SA (BR:SOLB), which lost 5.73% or 6.75 points to trade at 111.00 in late trade. TechnipFMC PLC (PA:FTI) declined 2.56% or 0.71 points to end at 27.03 and Credit Agricole SA (PA:CAGR) shed 1.76% or 0.240 points to 13.380.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Vicat (PA:VCTP) which rose 5.54% to 64.80, Thales (PA:TCFP) which was up 3.85% to settle at 109.30 and Elis Services SA (PA:ELIS) which gained 3.11% to close at 20.54.
The worst performers were Nexans (PA:NEXS) which was down 9.78% to 40.05 in late trade, Solvay SA (BR:SOLB) which lost 5.73% to settle at 111.00 and Arkema (PA:AKE) which was down 5.17% to 104.50 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 319 to 243 and 80 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was up 7.18% to 12.99.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.67% or 8.70 to $1314.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.01% or 0.01 to hit $67.92 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.15% or 0.11 to trade at $73.47 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.26% to 1.1982, while EUR/GBP rose 0.24% to 0.8826.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.30% at 92.31.