The CAC 40 starts again from the front
The Paris Stock Exchange began the week on a positive note, after four consecutive days of closure for Easter. In the middle of meeting, the CAC 40 0.50% advance to 4 054.40 points. The Paris Bourse and reached a record since the beginning of the year.
Thursday evening, the CAC 40 finished up sharply from 1.5%, moving beyond 4000 points, 4034 points exactly, carried by the American tone of the evening, and for good economic indicators.
Friday, while Paris and Wall Street were closed, as expected figures on employment have been published. They are good: in March, the United States has created 162,000 jobs, the best performance in nearly three years. It is partly due to the hiring of 48,000 federal agents responsible for conducting the population census planned this year. But overall, the trend shows that employment in the private sector restarts.The ISM and the promise of home sales were also better than expected.
These figures were in any case allowed to appear in Asian stock green overall, except in Tokyo, but this index had increased many previous sessions. The trend was still a bit cool to the announcement by the Australian central bank as falling interest rates to 4.25%, the fifth increase since October.
Few statistics Tuesday
On the macroeconomic front on Tuesday, few new major.The INSEE published at noon on turnover in wholesale trade, retail trade and personal services for French companies in January on line pay day loans.
In the U.S., will be followed by the minutes of the monetary policy meeting of the Fed's March 16 to 20 hours.
Renault honor
Criticized in France, Sanofi-Aventis drug against heart rhythm disorders is considered less effective than existing generic by the Cedars-Sinai Heart Center of Los Angeles whose analysis should be widely listened to. The group shares yield 0.93%, to 54.65 euros.
Historic day for Renault, whose shares climbed 2.21% to 36.28 euros. The French manufacturer is on Tuesday morning a special board.It must give its approval to a broad industrial cooperation with the German group Daimler and equity participations cross.
Total has been indicted for corruption, but its shares rise 1.4%, to 44.25 euros, while oil is still above $ 86. Total advances from 1.90% to 44.47 euros.
As India began the population census, the service companies that handle such services are identified on the alert, like Capgemini and Steria.
Beneteau released Thursday night after a stock turnover of more than 253 million euros for the first half of fiscal 2009-2010, as against less than 240 million euros last year. Beneteau expects a growth of 15% over the year. The stock price up 0.15% to 13.40 euros.