2023-06-15 08:10:12
The star CAC 40 index fell by 19.93 points to 7,308.60 points around 9:50 a.m. Since the start of the week, the Parisian rating has risen each day by around 0.5%, showing confidence before the announcements of the American Federal Reserve (Fed).
The monetary institution decided on Thursday not to raise its key rates, for the first time since March 2022 and following ten consecutive increases, and is giving itself a little more time to observe the evolution of economic activity.
But given inflation that is still high – 4% over one year in May in the United States – Fed Chairman Jerome Powell warned that “virtually all of the participants (at the meeting, editor’s note) see it as likely the fact that further rate hikes will be needed this year to bring inflation down to 2%”.
The majority of Fed officials see rates rising to 5.50-5.75%, which would imply two rate hikes of 0.25 percentage points in the coming months. However, the markets were expecting at most an increase of 0.25 points in July.
The prospect of further increases plunged the New York Stock Exchange, which turned red following the publication of the Fed statement, and closed in scattered order on Wednesday evening.
Investors’ attention is now turning to the European Central Bank, which is holding a meeting on Thursday.
A 0.25 point rise in ECB rates is expected by market observers.
“The most important question will be what the ECB will indicate next, and whether it will align with market expectations which foresee only one more increase following today’s”, underline the analysts of Deutsche Bank.
Moreover, new disappointing economic indicators have been published in China.
New player at the Casino table
The Casino group, in great financial difficulty, announced on Wednesday evening that it had been informed that one of its shareholders, the financier Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière (Fimalac), was studying “a possible participation” of up to 150 million euros in the project. capital increase by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky.
Casino shares fell 8.22% to 7.37 euros, the day following a jump of more than 20% following the proposal by the Niel-Pigasse-Zouari trio to invest one billion euros to raise capital.
The Rallye title also fell around 9:40 a.m. from 14.86% to 2.21 euros following an increase of nearly 40% on Wednesday.
M6 shares the victory
France Télévisions and M6 (-0.15% to 13.23 euros) announced on Wednesday the joint purchase of the rights to the 2023 Women’s World Cup, for which they will share the broadcast of the matches in the clear this summer.
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