Investing.com – France equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Utilities sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 lost 0.33%, while the SBF 120 index lost 0.22%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Publicis Groupe SA (PA:PUBP), which rose 1.10% or 0.71 points to trade at 65.48 at the close. Nokia Oyj (PA:NOKIA) added 1.06% or 0.050 points to end at 4.745 and ArcelorMittal SA (AS:ISPA) was up 0.65% or 0.047 points to 7.309 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Airbus Group (PA:AIR), which lost 1.32% or 0.84 points to trade at 63.00 in late trade. Danone SA (PA:DANO) declined 1.19% or 0.71 points to end at 59.00 and Accor SA (PA:ACCP) shed 1.18% or 0.43 points to 35.89.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were GTT (PA:GTT) which rose 5.76% to 39.40, SES (PA:SESFd) which was up 2.56% to settle at 21.07 and Vallourec (PA:VLLP) which gained 2.22% to close at 6.400.
The worst performers were Air France KLM SA (PA:AIRF) which was down 1.78% to 5.360 in late trade, Sartorius Stedim Biotech (PA:STDM) which lost 1.50% to settle at 59.25 and Airbus Group (PA:AIR) which was down 1.32% to 63.00 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 299 to 283 and 98 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 0.58% to 14.71.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was down 0.05% or 0.60 to $1133.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 1.05% or 0.56 to hit $52.74 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 1.23% or 0.68 to trade at $54.67 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.43% to 1.0434, while EUR/GBP rose 0.61% to 0.8450.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.26% at 102.99.