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

The index dropped 0.72% at the Paris close, while it fell 0.7%.

They were the top performers at the session Safran SA (PA:) traded at 107.52 after the close by gaining 1.38%, or 1.46 points. Veolia Environnement VE SA (+1.31%) was at the close with 0.39 points, while Airbus Group SE (PA) rose 1.30% to 107.26.

STMicroelectronics (PA:), the worst performer of the session, fell by 2.76% to 43.17 and 1.23 points at the closing. Hermes International SCA(PA:) dropped 2.62% (42.50 points) to close at 1577.00 Pernod Ricard SA (PA:), was at 207.60 with a drop of 2.49%.

Top performers in the SBF 120 competition were Valneva (PA:), which rose by 5.58%, to 22.700 Ubisoft Entertainment (PA) was up 3.01% and settled at 43.50 Casino Guichard Perrachon SA, (PA:), which increased 2.25% to close on 21.83

These were the worst performers Soitec SA (PA) was at 4.85% lower than 219.60 during late trade. Mcphy Energy (PA:), which fell 3.03% to settle for 22.42 Remy Cointreau (PA) was at a record low of 2.84%, or 205.00 at close.

By 335 to 275 and 87, respectively, falling stocks outnumbered advancing stocks on the Paris Stock Exchange.

The was unchanged at 0%, to 18.96, an all-time 52 week low.

For February delivery, Gold Futures rose 0.02% to $1785.00 per troy an ounce. In commodities trading, crude oil rose 0.42 or 0.58% to $72.47 per barrel in January, and the February Brent oil contract rose 0.44 or 0.58% to $75.88 per barrel.

EUR/USD rose 0.7% to 1.1349 while EUR/GBP rose by 0.81%, to 0.8573.

At 95.877, the US Dollar Index Futures fell 0.51%.