France shares higher at close of trade; CAC 40 up 1.06%

Investing.com – France equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas , Gas & Water and General Financial sectors propelled shares higher.

At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 added 1.06%, while the SBF 120 index added 1.05%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Publicis Groupe SA (PA: PUBP ), which rose 3.17% or 1.50 points to trade at 48.78 at the close. Atos SE (PA: ATOS ) added 2.95% or 2.30 points to end at 80.30 and TechnipFMC PLC (PA: FTI ) was up 2.88% or 0.56 points to 20.00 in late trade.

Biggest losers included ArcelorMittal SA (AS: MT ), which lost 1.13% or 0.218 points to trade at 19.030 in late trade. Pernod Ricard SA (PA: PERP ) declined 0.50% or 0.75 points to end at 149.80 and Carrefour SA (PA: CARR ) gained 0.11% or 0.02 points to 17.50.

The top performers on the SBF 120 were CGG SA (PA: GEPH ) which rose 7.37% to 1.545, Technicolor (PA: TCH ) which was up 6.92% to settle at 0.974 and Worldline SA (PA: WLN ) which gained 4.29% to close at 51.250.

The worst performers were Eurofins Scientific (PA: EUFI ) which was down 4.61% to 302.20 in late trade, Groupe FNAC (PA: FNAC ) which lost 3.07% to settle at 67.950 and Vallourec (PA: VLLP ) which was down 2.39% to 1.450 at the close.

Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 344 to 234 and 102 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.

The CAC 40 VIX , which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 6.16% to 15.98.

In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.47% or 6.15 to $1312.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 1.29% or 0.68 to hit $52.04 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.77% or 0.48 to trade at $61.62 a barrel.

EUR/USD was down 0.45% to 1.1278, while EUR/GBP rose 0.29% to 0.8770.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.45% at 96.850.