Caution and a wait-and-see attitude are shaping up to be the watchwords at the start of the week marked by the meeting of the Fed’s monetary policy committee, as well as by a wave of corporate publications in Europe and the United States. Not to mention the geopolitical risk. Around 8:30 a.m., the contract future…
(BFM Bourse) – The CAC 40 is accelerating its fall which began on Friday (-1.75%) with a plunge of 3.97% which brings it back below 6800 points on Monday. Global markets are faltering on fears that geopolitical tensions will escalate into armed conflict in Ukraine and on the eve of another Fed meeting that is…
MILAN (Reuters) – Lufthansa is set to take a 40% stake in ITA Airways, the successor to Alitalia, and a deal could be announced next week, Italian daily Il Foglio reported on Saturday. ITA Airways, which employs 2,300 people and has a fleet representing less than half of that operated by Alitalia, has been operational…
* Hésitation en vue à Wall Street * En Europe, l’indice Stoxx 600 perd 2,1%, le CAC 40 1,78% * L’Otan envoie des renforts en Europe de l’Est * Repli sur les valeurs refuges par Marc Angrand PARIS, 24 janvier (Reuters) – Wall Street est attendue en baisse et les Bourses européennes creusent leurs pertes…
by Krystal Hu, Anirban Sen and David French (Reuters) – U.S. fintech firm Chime Financial has approached Goldman Sachs Group for a major IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, people familiar with the matter said. This “fintech” could be valued at nearly 40 billion dollars (35 billion euros), the sources added, while on the…
(CercleFinance.com) – The Paris Stock Exchange is expected to decline slightly on Monday morning, investors preparing for a busy week between corporate results, economic indicators and meeting of the American Central Bank. Around 8:15 am, the ‘future’ contract on the CAC 40 index – passed on the February deadline – fell 45 points to 7019…
(BFM Bourse) – Somewhat neglected by managers for years in the face of the spectacular growth of the technology compartment, particularly on the other side of the Atlantic, diversification, both sectoral and geographical, could make a comeback. Outdated, diversification? Not so fast. While the Nasdaq 100 has outrageously dominated the markets in terms of performance…
by Michael Nienaber and Giuseppe Fonte BERLIN/ROME (Reuters) – German airline Lufthansa is in talks to acquire a 40% stake in Alitalia’s successor ITA Airways, two people familiar with the negotiations said on Sunday, following a report that a deal could be unveiled next week. Discussions on a merger between Lufthansa – partly public –…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The economic situation in the euro zone and the absence of a sharp rise in wages support expectations of an ebb in inflation this year, Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank (ECB) said on Friday. In an online debate organized by the World Economic Forum, she explained that energy prices…
Split WASHINGTON (awp/afp) – The idea of prohibiting sitting US parliamentarians from buying or selling shares on the stock market is gaining ground, but is far from unanimous. In recent weeks, various bills have been tabled by elected officials on both sides to frame much more strictly the rules on investments by lawmakers in listed…
Many DeFi projects are in free fall. Both Uniswap (UNI), PancakeSwap(CAKE), SushiSwap (SUSHI) and the prices of the lending protocols Aave (AAVE) and Compound (COMP) have collapsed in the last few days. Only the tokens of the two DeFi exchanges for derivatives trading, dYdX (DYDX) and Perpetual Protocol (PERP), were able to withstand the strong…
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government is set to cut its economic growth forecast for this year to 3.6%, half a point lower than expected in October, a government source said on Friday. . This downward revision is explained by the bottlenecks weighing on the activity of several sectors, including that of semiconductors, and by…
