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

The Paris closing bell saw the index rise 0.16% and the Paris closing bell saw the stock market surge 0.16%.

They were the top performers at the session Alstom SA (PA) rose 1.50%, or 0.46 points, to close at 31.17. Eurofins Scientific SE (+1.42%) gained 1.56 points to close at 111.16. WFD Unibail Rodamco NV(AS:), was also up 1.28%, or 0.77 points, to settle at 60.79.

ArcelorMittal SA(AS:), the worst performer of the session, fell 1.27% (or 0.37 point) to trade at 28.36 by the closing. Dassault Systemes SE, (PA:), fell 0.96% (0.51 points) to finish at 52.70. Legrand SA (PA:), was 0.65% lower at 102.80.

These were the top performers on SBF 120 Elior Group (PA 🙂 rose 3.87% from 6.18 to 6.18. Solutions (30 SE (PA 🙂 was up 3.577% to settle at 6.96. Albioma SA (PA:), which saw a gain of 2.47% and closed at 34.04.

CGG SA(PA:), which fell 2.2% to 0.631 late trade, Ovh Groupe SAS [PA:] which dropped 1.29% to settle in at 24,48, and ArcelorMittal SA/AS: which declined 1.27% towards 28.36 close.

The Paris Stock Exchange saw rising stocks surpass declining stocks by 336 to 227, while 97 ended the same.

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

The February delivery of Gold Futures was up by 0.47%, or 8.55 percent to $1814.35 per troy ounce. In commodities trading, crude oil rose 0.39 or 0.51% to reach $76.95 per barrel in February, and the March Brent oil contract rose 0.29 or 0.37% to trade at $79.50 per barrel.

EUR/USD dropped 0.30% from 1.1315 to 1.1315 and EUR/GBP declined 0.26% to 0.8390.

At 96.095, the US Dollar Index Futures rose 0.18%.