Investing.com – France equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Travel & Leisure, Support Services and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 rose 0.17%, while the SBF 120 index climbed 0.29%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were ArcelorMittal SA (AS:ISPA), which rose 2.45% or 0.12 points to trade at 4.94 at the close. Veolia Environnement VE SA (PA:VIE) added 1.69% or 0.370 points to end at 22.265 and Unibail Rodamco SE (AS:UNBP) was up 1.49% or 3.70 points to 251.30 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Safran SA (PA:SAF), which lost 1.04% or 0.70 points to trade at 66.87 in late trade. Carrefour SA (PA:CARR) declined 0.98% or 0.29 points to end at 29.23 and Sanofi SA (PA:SASY) shed 0.79% or 0.66 points to 82.42.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Sodexo (PA:EXHO) which rose 9.85% to 88.20, Edenred (PA:EDEN) which was up 5.67% to settle at 18.46 and Casino Guichard (PA:CASP) which gained 3.85% to close at 55.03.
The worst performers were Korian Medica SA (PA:KORI) which was down 8.29% to 32.925 in late trade, Genfit (PA:GNFT) which lost 2.35% to settle at 37.990 and Bollore SA (PA:BOLL) which was down 2.21% to 4.29 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 414 to 299 and 64 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 3.88% to 22.62.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 1.13% or 12.10 to $1080.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.83% or 0.35 to hit $41.60 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.03% or 0.01 to trade at $44.12 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.70% to 1.0735, while EUR/GBP rose 0.23% to 0.7015.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.65% at 99.02.