The CAC 40 continues to slide - August 26, 2010
Since Wall Street opened, the CAC 40 was down a little deeper into the red, as was the case adhered just below these sessions. Around 16 hours, the index drops 1.71% to 3431.29 points. It seems that all eyes are turned to the United States, which links the bad economic publications.
After falling sales of existing homes (yesterday), on Wednesday, orders for durable goods rose only 0.3%, against 2.8% expected.The U.S. stock markets have opened in the emblematic red and embarking again finanières European places.
Second bad news dropped to 16 hours in the U.S. yet, sales of new houses have relapsed in July to reach a new record low since 1963 at least, after an unexpected plunge 12.3% from June , according to official figures released Wednesday in Washington.
Tuesday, across the Atlantic, the bad sales figures for housing (the lowest since 1995) had already severely affected exchanges.
On Wednesday morning, the CAC 40 was, however, tried to trace down the tip, reviving briefly in mid-morning, with 3,500 points, after an early morning start in the red (down 0.25% to 3482.53 points) .A rise that coincided with the announcement of a surprise increase barometer Ifo main confidence index in Germany. The latter settled in August to 106.7 points against 106.2 in July (as confirmed), while economists and analysts had expected the decline to 105.7. Their estimates ranged from 103.8 to 107.5.
After returning to equilibrium time, the Dax reassigns 0.77%. The London FTSE follows the same path (-1.05%) after starting in negative territory (-0.10%) followed again by a brief rebound.
Since the beginning of the week, the CAC 40 has yielded no less than 3.3%. And since August 6, the index dropped 9.7%!
As for currencies, the euro has stabilized against the dollar payday loans online.The euro traded 1.2662 dollar.
Edenred unscrews
In terms of values, many trucks will publish their results quarterly and half in this weekend.
Lagardere takes the lead, up from 3.94% to 29.045 euros. The title is supported by Exane noted that his opinion of "Underperform" from "Outperform." The target price has been raised from 35% to 35 euros
Edenred, the old branch of prepaid services group Accor became autonomous, has reported an operating income of 155 million euros in the first six months of the year, down 7.1% . Turnover rose 3.8% to 461 million. But the group is very conservative forecasts, the growth in issuance volume yet to be affected by rising unemployment in Europe.The securities were down 0.22% to 13.78 euros.
L'Oreal (0.90%) and Sperian (+0.09) will publish its first half results after market close.
The Polish government has shortlisted five offers to buy the 51% stake in state power company Enea on Tuesday said the Treasury Department, without specifying the identity of candidates. EDF (-0.44% to 31.63 euros) and GDF Suez (-0.80% to 24.32 euros) would be in the running according to media reports. Only EDF confirmed it had made a preliminary offer.
Scor (1.91% to 16.285 euros) has been a change of recommendation by Fitch. The broker has raised its outlook on Tuesday its debt rating of reinsurance group to "positive" cons "stable" and kept at "A" rating from its long-term debt of the group.Fitch said the decision including the prudent investment policy conducted by SCOR and the diversification of its risks.
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