The Parisian place rose by 0.46% in the first exchanges on Friday, the European markets deciding to move forward after the scattered closings of the day before and at the end of a week punctuated by inflation figures in the United States. .
The CAC 40 index took 30.52 points to 6,575.19 points around 10:30 a.m. The day before it had ended up slightly, reacting cautiously to the publication of US producer prices, markers of a slowdown in inflation in the United States.
Investors hope that a drop in inflation will make the American central bank (Fed) more conciliatory, to the point of attenuating the policy of raising its key rates undertaken since March 2022.
Market players currently seem unwilling to see the gap between wishes and reality. The level of inflation remains high and constitutes a serious threat to the medium-term economy, both in Europe and in the United States, warns Andreas Lipkow, analyst at Comdirect.
And this despite repeated interventions during the week from members of the Fed. The head of the San Francisco institution Mary Daly thus wanted to qualify the trend, acknowledging an improvement but no victory.
On the American side on Friday, attention is focused on the latest announcements from the University of Michigan, which measures the American consumer confidence index, explains Michael Hewson, analyst CMC Markets.
In July, the index showed a small recovery in confidence, 51.5 points.
If US inflation seems to be easing, the same thing happening in Europe seems difficult to envisage, energy prices being much more expensive there than in the United States, specifies Mr. Hewson.
Several indicators in Europe confirm the still gloomy context in Europe.
In France, inflation accelerated in July to reach 6.1% over one year after 5.8% in June, INSEE announced on Friday, adding that energy prices weighed on this development.
The unemployment rate is however almost stable in the second quarter of 2022 at 7.4% of the active population in France (excluding Mayotte) against 7.3% in the first quarter of the year.
In the UK, British gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.1% in the second quarter as the country’s purchasing power crisis is expected to worsen in the fall.
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