Investing.com – France stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Financials, Utilities and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 lost 0.65%, while the SBF 120 index declined 0.60%.
The best performers of the session on the CAC 40 were Danone SA (PA:DANO), which rose 3.13% or 1.85 points to trade at 61.00 at the close. Meanwhile, L’Oreal SA (PA:OREP) added 2.47% or 4.25 points to end at 176.10 and Solvay SA (BR:SOLB) was up 1.76% or 2.00 points to 115.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Credit Agricole SA (PA:CAGR), which fell 2.68% or 0.325 points to trade at 11.820 at the close. Societe Generale (PA:SOGN) declined 2.57% or 1.12 points to end at 42.40 and BNP Paribas SA (PA:BNPP) was down 2.23% or 1.27 points to 55.75.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were DBV Technologies (PA:DBV) which rose 5.43% to 68.100, Air France KLM SA (PA:AIRF) which was up 4.50% to settle at 6.460 and Danone SA (PA:DANO) which gained 3.13% to close at 61.00.
The worst performers were Vallourec (PA:VLLP) which was down 4.03% to 6.502 in late trade, GTT (PA:GTT) which lost 3.55% to settle at 38.55 and Rexel (PA:RXL) which was down 3.22% to 15.80 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Paris Stock Exchange by 374 to 227 and 110 ended unchanged.
Shares in Solvay SA (BR:SOLB) rose to 52-week highs; gaining 1.76% or 2.00 to 115.90.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 2.84% to 14.55.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.15% or 1.85 to $1239.75 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.49% or 0.26 to hit $53.10 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.16% or 0.09 to trade at $55.56 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.55% to 1.0615, while EUR/GBP fell 0.08% to 0.8540.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.42% at 100.87.