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Investing.com – France stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Financials , Technology and Consumer Services sectors led shares higher.

At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 rose 0.17% to hit a new 6-months high, while the SBF 120 index gained 0.14%.

The best performers of the session on the CAC 40 were Kering SA (EPA: PRTP ), which rose 7.01% or 17.35 points to trade at 264.75 at the close. Meanwhile, Edenred SA (EPA: EDEN ) added 3.21% or 1.02 points to end at 32.84 and Teleperformance SE (EPA: TEPRF ) was up 2.60% or 2.50 points to 98.84 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Schneider Electric SE (EPA: SCHN ), which fell 2.21% or 5.40 points to trade at 238.75 at the close. L’Oreal SA (EPA: OREP ) declined 2.17% or 7.40 points to end at 333.95 and Veolia Environnement VE SA (EPA: VIE ) was down 2.08% or 0.57 points to 26.78.

The top performers on the SBF 120 were Atos SE (EPA: ATOS ) which unchanged 8.70% to 0.00, Kering SA (EPA: PRTP ) which was up 7.01% to settle at 264.75 and Valneva (EPA: VLS ) which gained 4.81% to close at 3.88.

The worst performers were SEB SA (EPA: SEBF ) which was down 5.52% to 88.20 in late trade, Alstom SA (EPA: ALSO ) which lost 2.65% to settle at 20.54 and Ipsen SA (EPA: IPN ) which was down 2.38% to 119.00 at the close.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Paris Stock Exchange by 256 to 247 and 81 ended unchanged.

The CAC 40 VIX , which measures the implied volatility of CAC 40 options, was unchanged 0.00% to 18.96 a new 52-week high.

Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.06% or 1.75 to $2,930.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 2.41% or 1.77 to hit $71.55 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 2.06% or 1.59 to trade at $75.41 a barrel.

EUR/USD was unchanged 0.39% to 1.04, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.32% to 0.84.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.09% at 107.74.