Investing.com – France stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Foods & Drugs, Gas & Water and General Financial sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 gained 1.85%, while the SBF 120 index gained 1.81%.
The best performers of the session on the CAC 40 were Publicis Groupe SA (PA:PUBP), which rose 4.93% or 2.54 points to trade at 54.04 at the close. Meanwhile, Safran SA (PA:SAF) added 4.55% or 5.04 points to end at 115.92 and Renault SA (PA:RENA) was up 4.46% or 1.34 points to 31.41 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Sanofi SA (PA:SASY), which fell 0.07% or 0.06 points to trade at 87.03 at the close. Teleperformance SE (PA:TEPRF) added 0.06% or 0.20 points to end at 348.60 and Dassault Systemes SE (PA:DAST) was up 0.16% or 0.07 points to 43.24.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were CGG SA (PA:GEPH) which rose 6.29% to 0.612, Vallourec (PA:VLLP) which was up 6.33% to settle at 7.890 and Eramet SA (PA:ERMT) which gained 5.86% to close at 64.15.
The worst performers were Virbac SA (PA:VIRB) which was down 4.14% to 324.00 in late trade, Sartorius Stedim Biotech SA (PA:STDM) which lost 2.64% to settle at 438.60 and Eurofins Scientific SE (PA:EUFI) which was down 1.40% to 100.18 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Paris Stock Exchange by 424 to 172 and 80 ended unchanged.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was unchanged 0% to 18.96 a new 3-months low.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.38% or 6.95 to $1804.45 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 4.66% or 3.13 to hit $70.33 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 4.20% or 2.91 to trade at $72.26 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.16% to 1.1798, while EUR/GBP fell 0.30% to 0.8616.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.23% at 92.765.