Investing.com – France stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Industrials , Basic Materials and Technology sectors led shares higher.

At the close in Paris, the CAC 40 gained 2.33%, while the SBF 120 index added 2.23%.

The best performers of the session on the CAC 40 were Schneider Electric SE (EPA: SCHN ), which rose 5.68% or 11.60 points to trade at 215.80 at the close. Meanwhile, Airbus Group SE (EPA: AIR ) added 5.31% or 7.82 points to end at 154.96 and ArcelorMittal SA (AS: MT ) was up 4.48% or 1.16 points to 27.08 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Teleperformance SE (EPA: TEPRF ), which fell 7.28% or 7.02 points to trade at 89.44 at the close. Edenred SA (EPA: EDEN ) declined 1.39% or 0.38 points to end at 27.00 and Orange SA (EPA: ORAN ) was down 0.86% or 0.11 points to 12.68.

The top performers on the SBF 120 were Eutelsat Communications SA (EPA: ETL ) which rose 12.20% to 4.00, Emeis SA (EPA: EMEIS ) which was up 8.49% to settle at 12.25 and Ubisoft Entertainment (EPA: UBIP ) which gained 7.29% to close at 11.12.

The worst performers were Teleperformance SE (EPA: TEPRF ) which was down 7.28% to 89.44 in late trade, Television Francaise 1 SA (EPA: TFFP ) which lost 4.35% to settle at 8.04 and SES (EPA: SESFd ) which was down 2.49% to 4.54 at the close.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Paris Stock Exchange by 344 to 166 and 64 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 June delivery was up 0.45% or 14.64 to $3,236.84 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 1.37% or 0.81 to hit $58.43 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 1.11% or 0.69 to trade at $61.44 a barrel.

EUR/USD was unchanged 0.28% to 1.13, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.27% to 0.85.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.37% at 99.68.