Investing.com – France stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Leisure Goods, General Financial and Aerospace & Defense sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 added 1.18%, while the SBF 120 index added 1.18%.
The best performers of the session on the CAC 40 were Lafarge (PARIS:LAFP), which rose 2.95% or 1.79 points to trade at 62.54 at the close. Meanwhile, Peugeot SA (PARIS:PEUP) added 2.49% or 0.47 points to end at 19.12 and Airbus Group (PARIS:AIR) was up 2.23% or 1.35 points to 61.99 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Alstom (PARIS:ALSO), which fell 0.74% or 0.20 points to trade at 26.74 at the close. Bouygues (PARIS:BOUY) declined 0.13% or 0.05 points to end at 38.02 and Accor (PARIS:ACCP) was down 0.03% or 0.01 points to 48.31.
The top performers on the SBF 120 were Genfit (PARIS:GNFT) which rose 9.85% to 37.085, Adocia (PARIS:ADOC) which was up 4.33% to settle at 63.880 and Mercialys (PARIS:MERY) which gained 4.31% to close at 20.82.
The worst performers were Eramet (PARIS:ERMT) which was down 1.94% to 72.63 in late trade, Vallourec (PARIS:VLLP) which lost 1.73% to settle at 19.88 and Rexel (PARIS:RXL) which was down 0.97% to 15.38 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Paris Stock Exchange by 640 to 264 and 60 ended unchanged.
The CAC 40 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was down 0.46% to 22.45.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.58% or 6.90 to $1177.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 1.31% or 0.79 to hit $61.17 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 1.81% or 1.15 to trade at $64.48 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 1.45% to 1.1176, while EUR/GBP fell 0.83% to 0.7108.
The US Dollar Index was up 1.11% at 95.57.