Investing.com – France stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.

At the close in Paris, the declined 0.62%, while the index declined 0.54%.

The best performers of the session on the were Vivendi SA (PA:), which rose 2.54% or 0.27 points to trade at 10.90 at the close. Meanwhile, ArcelorMittal SA (AS:) added 2.38% or 0.62 points to end at 26.46 and Publicis Groupe SA (PA:) was up 0.90% or 0.52 points to 58.26 in late trade.

WFD Unibail Rodamco NV – (AS:) was the worst performer of the session, falling 2.97% to close at 63.62. Carrefour SA (PA:) declined 2.69% or 0.43 points to end at 15.54 and Safran SA (PA:) was down 2.54% or 2.86 points to 109.66.

The top performers on the SBF 120 were Eutelsat Communications SA (PA:) which rose 15.02% to 11.90, Valneva (PA:) which was up 6.02% to settle at 13.560 and SES (PA:) which gained 5.00% to close at 7.73.

The worst performers were Air France KLM SA (PA:) which was down 7.52% to 4.23 in late trade, Albioma SA (PA:) which lost 5.56% to settle at 34.00 and Solutions 30 SE (PA:) which was down 5.29% to 8.50 at the close.

The Paris Stock Exchange saw falling stocks surpass advancing by 337 to 259, while 84 ended the day unchanged.

Publicis Groupe SA (PA) shares rose to new 3-years highs. They gained 0.90%, or 0.52 to 58.16%. Eutelsat Communications SA’s shares rose to 52-week records; they gained 15.02%, or 1.55 to 11.90.

The implied volatility index of 40 CAC options was unchanged at 0%, to 18.96, a 6-month high.

The December Gold Futures were up 2.06%, or 35.55 to $1758.45 per troy ounce. In commodities trading, crude oil rose by 1.19%, or 0.89, to reach $75.72 per barrel in November. The December Brent oil contract went up 1.24%, or 0.97, to trade at $79.06 per barrel.

EUR/USD fell 0.1% to 1.1576 while EUR/GBP dropped 0.4% to 0.8596.

US Dollar Index Futures fell 0.04% to 94.312.