Investing.com – France stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Basic Materials, Consumer Goods and Financials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 rose 0.26%, while the SBF 120 index gained 0.23%.
The best performers of the session on the CAC 40 were Technip (PA:TECF), which rose 2.04% or 1.02 points to trade at 51.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Valeo SA (PA:VLOF) added 2.02% or 2.60 points to end at 131.05 and Renault SA (PA:RENA) was up 1.80% or 1.56 points to 88.03 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Schneider Electric SE (PA:SCHN), which fell 0.90% or 0.51 points to trade at 55.87 at the close. Sodexo (PA:EXHO) declined 0.85% or 0.79 points to end at 92.51 and Total SA (PA:TOTF) was down 0.71% or 0.30 points to 42.24.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Innate Pharma (PA:IPH) which rose 5.08% to 13.660, Maurel Et Prom (PA:MAUP) which was up 2.86% to settle at 3.24 and Europcar Groupe SA (PA:EUCAR) which gained 2.46% to close at 9.84.
The worst performers were Mercialys (PA:MERY) which was down 2.07% to 19.86 in late trade, Saft (PA:S1A) which lost 1.81% to settle at 26.51 and Electricite de France SA (PA:EDF) which was down 1.78% to 11.30 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Paris Stock Exchange by 352 to 318 and 101 ended unchanged.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was up 2.30% to 20.48.
Gold for June delivery was down 0.11% or 1.40 to $1233.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.72% or 0.30 to hit $41.41 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.21% or 0.09 to trade at $43.19 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.27% to 1.1314, while EUR/GBP fell 0.21% to 0.7927.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.22% at 94.47.