Investing.com – France equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Financials, Healthcare and Technology sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 rose 0.62%, while the SBF 120 index gained 0.38%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Bouygues SA (PA:BOUY), which rose 2.56% or 0.74 points to trade at 29.64 at the close. Societe Generale (PA:SOGN) added 2.14% or 0.70 points to end at 33.40 and Nokia Oyj (PA:NOKIA) was up 1.78% or 0.081 points to 4.642 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Accor SA (PA:ACCP), which lost 2.04% or 0.80 points to trade at 38.10 in late trade. Technip (PA:TECF) declined 1.88% or 0.88 points to end at 45.85 and Renault SA (PA:RENA) shed 1.74% or 1.43 points to 80.75.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Ubisoft Entertainment (PA:UBIP) which rose 7.99% to 30.020, Gemalto (AS:GTO) which was up 3.94% to settle at 55.14 and Spie SA (PA:SPIE) which gained 3.87% to close at 17.845.
The worst performers were Eutelsat Communications (PA:ETL) which was down 27.56% to 19.80 in late trade, Bollore SA (PA:BOLL) which lost 8.11% to settle at 3.08 and SES (PA:SESFd) which was down 8.06% to 21.97 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 331 to 319 and 106 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 3.91% to 21.09.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was up 0.04% or 0.55 to $1271.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 1.01% or 0.47 to hit $46.23 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.56% or 0.27 to trade at $47.81 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.74% to 1.1292, while EUR/GBP rose 0.20% to 0.7861.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.66% at 94.73.