After Wall Street closed Wednesday up 0.45% at 10,387 points, and that Portugal has managed its two bond issues for more than one billion euros on Wednesday, the CAC 40 finally opened slightly lower this Thursday: -0.28% at 3666.76 items. The London Stock Exchange was down 0.20% to 5419.19 points.
Although financial markets have integrated in the price recovery will be a more complicated than in the U.S., caution remains the watchword. On Wednesday, the main index rating Paris closed up 0.92% at 3677 points.
The Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, has shown little enthusiasm on U.S. household consumption and real estate and industrial sectors.The economy minister, Christine Lagarde, has adopted the same attitude as regards the European Union: the recovery remains "fragile".
Europe, the United States and Japan under scrutiny
On the macroeconomic front, the day will be very busy.
The French economy has registered 26,200 net new jobs employees in the second quarter (+0.1% from the previous quarter, 0% over a year), according to final figures released Thursday by the INSEE.
Moreover, the real estate industry figures in Paris and Ile de France for the second quarter were impressive: house prices soared again in Ile-de-France, as before the crisis, and central Paris is beat his record with an average transaction price of 6,680 euros per square meter.
In Germany, inflation slowed in August, 1% a year, against 1.2% in July, said Thursday the Federal Statistics Office, confirming preliminary figures released earlier.In one month, rising prices in Europe's largest economy is unchanged.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) we will evaluate the economic situation in Europe, U.S. and Japan to 11 hours.
The European Central Bank and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will publish its monthly report in the morning.
Finally, several indicators are expected in the U.S.: the weekly claims for unemployment benefits (1430), the trade figures for the month of July (1430) and the weekly crude oil inventories (1630).
On the currency markets, the euro lost ground against the dollar Thursday, falling below the $ 1.27, while the market is concerned about the contraction in gross domestic product of Greece 3.7% annual in the second quarter.Around 9:00, the single currency was worth 1.2688 dollars (-0.24%).
Values follow
EADS (+0.03% to EUR 18) is in discussions with a small number of defense companies, services and security for potential acquisitions and could easily make a purchase about one billion euros Louis Welsh said Wednesday, the Director General of the European group.
Total (-0.63% to 38.41 euros) gained 20% Thursday to a major liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Australia for about 625 million euros, driven by Australian groups Santos and Malaysia's Petronas .
Sanofi-Aventis (-0.08% to 47.75 euros) would have made a new proposal to buy U.S. biotech Genzyme at 71 dollars per share, against 69 dollars offered earlier to Deal Reporter, a financial services group Affiliated to the Financial Times.In exchange, Sanofi-Aventis requests access to the accounts of Genzyme.
The Australian competition authority has opposed Thursday for the second veto the bid of 8.65 billion euros from National Australia Bank to AXA Asia Pacific (AXA, -2.38% 12, 70 euros, the biggest drop CAC 40), which could force the Australian bank to abandon a project initiated nine months ago.
Bercy has announced a proposal to apply the VAT rate from 19.6% to the full tender "triple play" which would allow the state to reap hundreds of millions of euros in revenues Additional in a tight budgetary situation.Investors will pay attention to the reaction of France Telecom (-0.46%), SFR (Vivendi group, -0.38%), Bouygues Telecom (Bouygues, -1.12%) and Iliad (-1.55%), .
Moreover, the Polish subsidiary of France Telecom could publish a third-quarter loss after being ordered to pay 396 million euros to Danish DPTG, said Wednesday its chief financial officer.
Out of ACC 40, the automotive supplier Plastic Omnium (-0.49%) announced Thursday it had completed the acquisition of the global leader in fuel, Inergy Systems, which expects to achieve a turnover of approximately 1 1 billion euros this year.
The buyout offer (OPR), followed by a squeeze on the Eiffarie APRR (balance) will open September 10 for a period of ten days of negotiations.
British defense groups have reported Wednesday that the government had requested to consider the cancellation of orders for new aircraft carriers. The vessels are built by a consortium of BAE System, Babcock International and Thales (-0.58% to 26.4 euros) for a cost of five over five billion pounds (6.1 billion euros).
Korian (1.77% to 16.7 euros), specializing in the management of addiction, has announced a 24.3% increase in net profit to 8 million euros, 26.1% its operating results based on an increase of 6.8% of its turnover in the first half.
