The Paris Bourse is expected to rise slightly at the opening Thursday, investors still ignoring the rise in Omicron contaminations, convinced that it will not block the current economic recovery.
The futures contract of the flagship CAC 40 index was up 0.10% forty minutes before the opening of the session. The day before, he had finished down 0.27% 7,161.52 points.
In the morning of Wednesday, the Parisian coast had reached an all-time high, passing for the first time sharply above 7,200 points.
Mitigated at the time of the Paris close, US markets then accelerated, the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones ending on record highs, all in the customary low volumes of the last sessions of the year.
Thursday is the last full session of the year for the Paris Bourse, which will only be open for half a day on Friday.
In France, as in the United States, the number of Covid-19 contaminations continues to increase, under the effect of the Omicron variant.
However, “Omicron concerns have continued to ebb,” notes Jeffrey Halley.
Despite the meteoric rise in cases, new hospitalizations are progressing only more slowly.
Market operators are taking their distance from the warnings of the World Health Organization. Its leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus repeated Wednesday that he was “very concerned” by the “tsunami of cases”, which “is and will continue to put immense pressure on a then health workforce and health systems on the brink of failure. ‘collapse”.
Investors believe that the pressure exerted is not likely to derail global growth, and that government restrictions no longer cripple the economy so much.
Several countries such as Spain and Argentina have thus reduced the quarantine period for positive cases.
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On Wednesday, the US goods deficit for November climbed to a record on a surge in imports, reflecting strong US demand.
Thursday, the publication on weekly applications for unemployment benefit in the United States is expected.
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Euronext: the pan-European operator, which manages the Paris Stock Exchange in particular, reported on Friday a record 212 IPOs on its markets in 2021, a record, which raised 26 billion euros. 1,959 shares are now listed on the seven markets managed by the company, and are valued at 6.900 billion euros. A quarter of equities traded in Europe are traded on a market managed by Euronext.