Investing.com – France stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Gas & Water, General Financial and Foods & Drugs sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 rose 0.49%, while the SBF 120 index gained 0.42%.
The best performers of the session on the CAC 40 were Atos SE (PA:ATOS), which rose 2.78% or 1.94 points to trade at 71.62 at the close. Meanwhile, Dassault Systemes (PA:DAST) added 2.46% or 2.50 points to end at 104.30 and Air Liquide SA (PA:AIRP) was up 2.28% or 2.40 points to 107.65 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Airbus Group SE (PA:AIR), which fell 1.64% or 1.45 points to trade at 87.20 at the close. Safran SA (PA:SAF) declined 0.79% or 0.85 points to end at 106.35 and STMicroelectronics NV (PA:STM) was down 0.66% or 0.080 points to 12.030.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Plastic Omnium (PA:PLOF) which rose 3.79% to 19.84, Trigano (PA:TRIA) which was up 3.77% to settle at 83.85 and Ubisoft Entertainment (PA:UBIP) which gained 3.45% to close at 71.460.
The worst performers were Genfit (PA:GNFT) which was down 7.50% to 18.500 in late trade, Natixis (PA:CNAT) which lost 6.33% to settle at 4.171 and Nexans (PA:NEXS) which was down 5.25% to 23.46 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Paris Stock Exchange by 291 to 279 and 92 ended unchanged.
Shares in Natixis (PA:CNAT) fell to 52-week lows; falling 6.33% or 0.282 to 4.171.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 4.68% to 19.37.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.26% or 3.25 to $1256.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 3.20% or 1.49 to hit $48.09 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 2.26% or 1.27 to trade at $57.53 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.55% to 1.1425, while EUR/GBP rose 0.41% to 0.9026.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.48% at 96.102.