France shares lower at close of trade; CAC 40 down 0.05%

Investing.com – France equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Gas & Water , General Financial and Foods & Drugs sectors propelled shares lower.

At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 fell 0.05%, while the SBF 120 index fell 0.14%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Air Liquide SA (PA: AIRP ), which rose 2.50% or 2.60 points to trade at 106.75 at the close. Total SA (PA: TOTF ) added 1.50% or 0.72 points to end at 49.16 and Sanofi SA (PA: SASY ) was up 1.19% or 0.94 points to 79.81 in late trade.

Biggest losers included Carrefour SA (PA: CARR ), which lost 3.14% or 0.52 points to trade at 15.90 in late trade. Bouygues SA (PA: BOUY ) declined 2.25% or 0.78 points to end at 33.96 and WFD Unibail Rodamco NV (AS: URW ) shed 1.82% or 2.82 points to 151.84.

The top performers on the SBF 120 were SES (PA: SESFd ) which rose 4.53% to 19.15, Eutelsat Communications SA (PA: ETL ) which was up 3.83% to settle at 18.82 and Air Liquide SA (PA: AIRP ) which gained 2.50% to close at 106.75.

The worst performers were Faurecia (PA: EPED ) which was down 6.26% to 34.42 in late trade, CGG SA (PA: GEPH ) which lost 4.39% to settle at 1.328 and Iliad (PA: ILD ) which was down 4.37% to 119.15 at the close.

Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 325 to 261 and 86 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.

The CAC 40 VIX , which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 5.80% to 18.41.

In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.25% or 3.10 to $1227.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.35% or 0.18 to hit $51.27 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.47% or 0.28 to trade at $59.63 a barrel.

EUR/USD was down 0.63% to 1.1321, while EUR/GBP fell 0.45% to 0.8870.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.43% at 97.110.