Investing.com – France equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Basic Materials and Utilities sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 declined 1.13%, while the SBF 120 index declined 1.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the CAC 40 were Publicis Groupe SA (PA:PUBP), which rose 2.07% or 1.20 points to trade at 59.10 at the close. Accor SA (PA:ACCP) added 1.38% or 0.63 points to end at 46.21 and Societe Generale SA (PA:SOGN) was up 0.87% or 0.40 points to 45.58 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ArcelorMittal SA (AS:MT), which lost 3.30% or 0.880 points to trade at 25.765 in late trade. TechnipFMC PLC (PA:FTI) declined 2.55% or 0.62 points to end at 23.71 and Total SA (PA:TOTF) shed 2.05% or 0.96 points to 46.19.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Solocal Group SA (PA:LOCAL) which rose 2.74% to 1.162, Publicis Groupe SA (PA:PUBP) which was up 2.07% to settle at 59.10 and Mercialys (PA:MERY) which gained 1.94% to close at 16.29.
The worst performers were Nexans (PA:NEXS) which was down 4.87% to 42.16 in late trade, Klepierre (PA:LOIM) which lost 3.91% to settle at 33.40 and ArcelorMittal SA (AS:MT) which was down 3.30% to 25.765 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 346 to 212 and 102 ended unchanged on the Paris Stock Exchange.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was up 25.00% to 15.44.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.40% or 5.20 to $1317.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.51% or 0.32 to hit $62.09 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 0.24% or 0.16 to trade at $66.05 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.40% to 1.2339, while EUR/GBP fell 0.35% to 0.8788.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.41% at 89.43.