Natural resources shares gained an aggregate 7.07% over the month, a long way ahead of the second best performing sector business providers, which gained 0.23% overall.
The Euromoney EMIX Europe Index comprises 642 companies across 16 European countries, including the largest 350 stocks and the most liquid 35% of European smaller companies.
The index fell by -0.31% during the month. Retail providers at -2.79% and technology companies at -2.30% were the worst performing sectors.
Greece was the top performing nation with eight companies in the index rising by an average of +8.29%, recouping some of the 15.65% lost in March.
Austrian companies rose by an average of +4.93%, while companies from Finland which lost -7.00% overall and Germany which lost -4.36% were the weakest performers over the month.
Swedish Orphan Bio was the biggest gaining company in the month at +47.2% followed by Tullow Oil +46.2%.
Outokumpu of Finland was the worst performing company at -26.9% with STMicroelectronics of France also at the bottom end of the table with an -18.1% fall.
