France shares lower at close of trade; CAC 40 down 0.38%

Investing.com – France equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Technology , Healthcare and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.

At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 fell 0.38%, while the SBF 120 index fell 0.31%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Dassault Systemes (PA: DAST ), which rose 2.10% or 2.30 points to trade at 112.00 at the close. Vivendi SA (PA: VIV ) added 0.89% or 0.20 points to end at 22.59 and Sanofi SA (PA: SASY ) was up 0.88% or 0.66 points to 76.06 in late trade.

Biggest losers included Societe Generale SA (PA: SOGN ), which lost 2.78% or 0.73 points to trade at 25.75 in late trade. Valeo SA (PA: VLOF ) declined 2.73% or 0.74 points to end at 26.36 and Renault SA (PA: RENA ) shed 2.07% or 1.27 points to 60.14.

The top performers on the SBF 120 were DBV Technologies (PA: DBV ) which rose 3.35% to 12.030, Worldline SA (PA: WLN ) which was up 3.16% to settle at 50.300 and Nexity (PA: NEXI ) which gained 2.93% to close at 41.44.

The worst performers were Vallourec (PA: VLLP ) which was down 7.16% to 1.440 in late trade, Technicolor (PA: TCH ) which lost 4.16% to settle at 0.933 and Maisons du Monde SAS (PA: MDM ) which was down 4.07% to 23.080 at the close.

Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 331 to 243 and 94 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.

The CAC 40 VIX , which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was up 2.87% to 14.18.

In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.28% or 3.65 to $1318.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 1.70% or 0.94 to hit $54.32 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.45% or 0.28 to trade at $62.47 a barrel.

EUR/USD was down 0.18% to 1.1434, while EUR/GBP rose 0.07% to 0.8759.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.27% at 95.558.