Investing.com – France stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Beverage, Leisure Goods and Personal Goods sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 added 0.70%, while the SBF 120 index gained 0.78%.
The best performers of the session on the CAC 40 were Veolia Environnement (PARIS:VIE), which rose 3.33% or 0.630 points to trade at 19.550 at the close. Meanwhile, Technip (PARIS:TECF) added 2.84% or 1.73 points to end at 62.60 and Pernod Ricard (PARIS:PERP) was up 2.70% or 3.00 points to 114.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Alcatel-Lucent (PARIS:ALUA), which fell 1.40% or 0.044 points to trade at 3.107 at the close. EDF (PARIS:EDF) declined 1.10% or 0.25 points to end at 22.48 and GDF Suez (PARIS:GSZ) was down 0.93% or 0.17 points to 18.04.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were CGG (PARIS:GEPH) which rose 8.12% to 6.84, Havas (PARIS:HAVA) which was up 4.84% to settle at 7.800 and SEB SA (PARIS:SEBF) which gained 4.23% to close at 86.22.
The worst performers were Imerys (PARIS:IMTP) which was down 2.33% to 66.34 in late trade, Rexel (PARIS:RXL) which lost 2.11% to settle at 16.48 and STMicroelectronics (PARIS:STM) which was down 1.63% to 7.004 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Paris Stock Exchange by 591 to 321 and 45 ended unchanged.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was up 5.75% to 22.22.
Gold for June delivery was up 1.36% or 16.00 to $1190.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.63% or 0.37 to hit $58.78 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.28% or 0.18 to trade at $66.28 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.38% to 1.1157, while EUR/GBP fell 0.19% to 0.7376.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.18% at 95.55.