The Paris Bourse plunged into the red
July 1, 2010
Like its counterparts in the U.S. and Asia, the Paris Stock Exchange began the session down sharply Thursday. The CAC 40 starts on a decline of 1.63% to 3386.79 points.
The threat of Moody's notes the degrade of Spain crystallize attention throughout the day. The U.S. credit rating agency put the sovereign rating of Spain under surveillance. Moody's points to weak growth prospects of its economy.
Moreover, the adoption in the United States by the House of Representatives of the financial sector reform, discussed for months, will attract the attention of investors. The new legislation will include Washington to restructure financial institutions in bankruptcy, for failing to conduct further rescue operations financed by the state.The powers of the Federal Reserve (Fed) are expanded, a monitoring of the sector is expected and will give consumers more protection. Moreover, hedge funds and rating agencies will be subject to more stringent regulations. The text must be approved by the Senate next week before being signed by Barack Obama.
In terms of statistics, INSEE announced this morning that producer prices remained stable in France in May after rising 1.0% in April, but they recorded an increase of 4.3% over year.
In the eurozone, the PMI manufacturing index will be released in 11 hours. Overseas, the jobless claims will be released at 16 hours and the promise of home sales and the ISM index of manufacturing activity.
The car in the viewfinder
In terms of corporate value is not in the green in the morning.
EADS shares (-2.34% to 16.47 euros) will be particularly followed. Indeed, the WTO has imposed a setback scathing EU ordering him to remove certain export subsidies provided to Airbus. The Union will appeal the decision of the World. Financial details have not been disclosed. Boeing believes that the pan-European aircraft manufacturer must pay back $ 4 billion of undue subsidies. But the WTO has put forward any figures, it will be difficult to see clearly the consequences of the decision of the international organization.
Moreover, the numbers of registrations in France will be unveiled on Thursday at noon. According to BFM, they have dropped 10% in the month of JuneIn addition, the phasing of the scrappage scheme does not allow a glimpse of the market recovery in the immediate future. Renault (-2.27% to 30.08 euros) would be the big winner in first quarter sales thanks to its built by Dacia Sandero.
Peugeot was down 2.42% to 20.55 euros, while Michelin loose 1.97% to 56.59 euros.
Out CAC40, Faurecia (-1.66% to 13 euros) has unveiled the acquisition of 18.75% of the Chinese automotive Xujang Group, where he became the strategic shareholder.
Bank stocks should also once again hold the attention of investors with a loan of 442 billion euros on Thursday. A year ago, in 1121 established banks in the euro zone had borrowed over 442 billion euros at the ECB at a fixed rate of 1%, a record in the history of European monetary institution on a single transaction. Credit Agricole lost 3.09% to 8.36 euros.It is followed by BNP Paribas (-2.79% to 43.52 euros) and Societe Generale (-2.71% to 33.37 euros).
The Société Générale will be more monitoring than the AMF (AMF), Wednesday imposed a fine of 100,000 euros to Jean-Pierre Mustier, former head of market activities of Societe Generale for failing to initiated. Conversely, Natixis has been exonerated by the AMF following an investigation into his financial disclosure.
Shareholders will also be sensitive to the decision of Saint Gobain (-1.29% to 30.50 euros) to repay 72.1% of the 2009 dividend in shares to allow the group to strengthen its capital of 368 million euros .
In addition, the Sanofi-Aventis (-1.18% to 48.94 euros) may react to the decision of the U.S. Food to MultEQ, an arrhythmia drug cons of the French group on the list quarterly audits.
France Telecom (-1.44% to 14.08 euros) will also be under the spotlight. The operator presents its new internal business plan
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