Investing.com – France stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Foods & Drugs, Gas & Water and General Financial sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 gained 1.43%, while the SBF 120 index added 1.50%.
The best performers of the session on the CAC 40 were WFD Unibail Rodamco NV (AS:URW), which rose 11.24% or 5.36 points to trade at 53.06 at the close. Meanwhile, Publicis Groupe SA (PA:PUBP) added 8.15% or 2.08 points to end at 27.60 and Renault SA (PA:RENA) was up 6.19% or 1.25 points to 21.45 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Dassault Systemes SE (PA:DAST), which fell 1.31% or 2.00 points to trade at 150.25 at the close. L’Oreal SA (PA:OREP) declined 1.18% or 3.10 points to end at 258.80 and Atos SE (PA:ATOS) was down 1.18% or 0.80 points to 67.02.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Vallourec (PA:VLLP) which rose 12.07% to 36.670, WFD Unibail Rodamco NV (AS:URW) which was up 11.24% to settle at 53.06 and Covivio SA (PA:CVO) which gained 8.26% to close at 57.00.
The worst performers were BIC (PA:BICP) which was down 3.80% to 46.06 in late trade, Sartorius Stedim Biotech SA (PA:STDM) which lost 2.95% to settle at 236.60 and Metropole Television SA (PA:MMTP) which was down 2.87% to 10.14 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Paris Stock Exchange by 407 to 163 and 85 ended unchanged.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 0.94% to 29.57.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.01% or 0.25 to $1751.95 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 1.44% or 0.51 to hit $34.98 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.37% or 0.14 to trade at $37.98 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.27% to 1.1127, while EUR/GBP fell 0.77% to 0.8928.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.45% at 97.898.