Investing.com – France stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Foods & Drugs, Gas & Water and General Financial sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 declined 3.76%, while the SBF 120 index fell 3.87%.
The best performers of the session on the CAC 40 were Danone SA (PA:DANO), which rose 1.21% or 0.74 points to trade at 62.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Dassault Systemes SE (PA:DAST) added 0.65% or 0.85 points to end at 131.30 and Hermes International SCA (PA:HRMS) was up 0.42% or 2.80 points to 675.60 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Publicis Groupe SA (PA:PUBP), which fell 9.58% or 2.86 points to trade at 27.00 at the close. Sodexo SA (PA:EXHO) declined 9.35% or 6.50 points to end at 63.04 and WFD Unibail Rodamco NV (AS:URW) was down 8.89% or 5.22 points to 53.50.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Lagardere SCA (PA:LAGA) which rose 4.11% to 15.20, SES (PA:SESFd) which was up 2.64% to settle at 5.98 and Virbac SA (PA:VIRB) which gained 2.32% to close at 167.80.
The worst performers were TechnipFMC PLC (PA:FTI) which was down 11.42% to 6.69 in late trade, Rexel (PA:RXL) which lost 11.19% to settle at 7.01 and Eurazeo (PA:EURA) which was down 10.51% to 40.54 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Paris Stock Exchange by 452 to 129 and 76 ended unchanged.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was up 12.58% to 43.18.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 1.70% or 30.15 to $1738.75 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.65% or 0.13 to hit $19.98 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 5.17% or 1.53 to trade at $28.07 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.55% to 1.0919, while EUR/GBP rose 0.16% to 0.8710.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.65% at 99.528.