Investing.com – France stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Gas & Water and General Financial sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 added 1.74%, while the SBF 120 index gained 1.78%.
The best performers of the session on the CAC 40 were TechnipFMC PLC (PA:FTI), which rose 3.25% or 0.55 points to trade at 17.30 at the close. Meanwhile, Atos SE (PA:ATOS) added 3.12% or 2.14 points to end at 70.64 and Kering SA (PA:PRTP) was up 3.11% or 12.00 points to 397.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Vivendi SA (PA:VIV), which rose 0.24% or 0.05 points to trade at 21.02 at the close. Renault SA (PA:RENA) added 0.65% or 0.35 points to end at 54.03 and WFD Unibail Rodamco NV (AS:URW) was up 0.65% or 0.86 points to 133.26.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Technicolor (PA:TCH) which rose 7.08% to 0.892, Nexans (PA:NEXS) which was up 5.87% to settle at 24.00 and Maisons du Monde SAS (PA:MDM) which gained 5.60% to close at 16.410.
The worst performers were Biomerieux SA (PA:BIOX) which was down 1.24% to 55.80 in late trade, DBV Technologies (PA:DBV) which lost 1.22% to settle at 10.550 and Covivio SA (PA:FDR) which was down 1.03% to 81.70 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Paris Stock Exchange by 485 to 127 and 74 ended unchanged.
Shares in Covivio SA (PA:FDR) fell to 52-week lows; down 1.03% or 0.85 to 81.70.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 7.10% to 23.65.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.06% or 0.80 to $1281.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 1.66% or 0.74 to hit $45.35 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.83% or 0.44 to trade at $53.17 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.09% to 1.1439, while EUR/GBP fell 0.38% to 0.9007.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.05% at 95.953.