Investing.com – France equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Leisure Goods, Personal Goods and Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 gained 0.74%, while the SBF 120 index climbed 0.65%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Peugeot SA (PARIS:PEUP), which rose 2.58% or 0.47 points to trade at 18.72 at the close. LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA (PARIS:LVMH) added 2.45% or 3.95 points to end at 165.50 and Unibail-Rodamco (AMS:UNBP) was up 2.44% or 5.55 points to 232.65 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Alstom (PARIS:ALSO), which lost 3.23% or 0.88 points to trade at 26.39 in late trade. Arcelormittal (AMS:ISPA) declined 2.71% or 0.27 points to end at 9.73 and Schneider Electric (PARIS:SCHN) shed 1.46% or 0.96 points to 65.00.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were SCOR SE (PARIS:SCOR) which rose 3.69% to 32.16, Tarkett (PARIS:TKTT) which was up 3.25% to settle at 22.26 and Television Francaise 1 SA (PARIS:TFFP) which gained 2.85% to close at 15.695.
The worst performers were Altran Technologies (PARIS:ALTT) which was down 4.58% to 9.480 in late trade, Solocal Group (PARIS:LOCAL) which lost 4.33% to settle at 0.376 and Vallourec (PARIS:VLLP) which was down 3.26% to 20.48 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 489 to 420 and 53 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 0.57% to 23.10.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was down 0.65% or 7.70 to $1178.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 1.51% or 0.93 to hit $60.50 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 1.32% or 0.86 to trade at $64.83 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.86% to 1.1227, while EUR/GBP fell 0.58% to 0.7250.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.70% at 95.25.