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The world’s stock markets are having a fairly quiet start to August, after strong gains in July. In Paris<\/strong> on Wednesday, the CAC 40<\/strong> gained 0.05%<\/strong> to 6,406.75 points<\/strong> at around 07:40 GMT. In London<\/strong>, the FTSE 100<\/strong> is down 0.26%<\/strong> and in Frankfurt,<\/strong> the Dax<\/strong> is down 0.24%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The EuroStoxx 50<\/strong> index is up 0.07%<\/strong>, the FTSEurofirst 300<\/strong> is down 0.14%<\/strong> and the Stoxx 600<\/strong> is down 0.15%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Several Federal Reserve officials, including “doves”<\/em> Mary Daly and Charles Evans, said on Tuesday that they and their colleagues remained resolute and “totally united” in raising US interest rates to a level that would more significantly curb economic activity and control inflation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On the diplomatic front, China<\/strong> strongly condemned the visit to Taiwan<\/strong> by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/strong>, who hailed the parliament in Taipei as “one of the freest societies in the world”.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Beijing, which considers Taiwan<\/strong> to be part of its territory, summoned the US<\/strong> ambassador to China<\/strong> and announced the suspension of the import of certain Taiwanese agricultural goods.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “The market is caught in a fairly uncertain period right now,” said Mathan Somasundaram, managing director at Deep Data Analytics. “Fed officials have calmed the markets’ idea that a slowdown in interest rate hikes is coming and the deterioration in the global trend is also partly due to Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n On the stock side, the CAC 40’s top performer, Axa,<\/strong> gained 4.04%<\/strong> after reporting a 3%<\/strong> rise in first-half net profit and Societe Generale<\/strong> gained 3.65%<\/strong> after reporting a smaller-than-expected loss in the second quarter.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Veolia<\/strong> is down 2.23%<\/strong> after its results.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Frankfurt<\/strong>, Commerzbank<\/strong> was stable (-0.03%<\/strong>) and BMW<\/strong> gave up 5.28%<\/strong> after their results while Infineon gained 1.61%<\/strong> after publishing better than expected quarterly results and raising its sales outlook.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tod’s<\/strong> is up 21.13%<\/strong> as the founding family and largest shareholder announced that it will launch a tender offer for some of the shares it does not already own in order to delist the luxury group.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Avast jumped 41.91%<\/strong> in London<\/strong> as the UK Competition and Markets Authority said it had provisionally cleared the takeover of the cybersecurity company by rival NortonLifeLock<\/strong> for $8.6bn.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lire aussi >\u00a0FED boosts Bitcoin price<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Photo \u00e0 la Une : \u00a9 QuoteInspector.com[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row njt-role=”not-logged-in”][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The world’s stock markets are having a fairly quiet start to August, after strong gains in July. In Paris<\/strong> on Wednesday, the CAC 40<\/strong> gained 0.05%<\/strong> to 6,406.75 points<\/strong> at around 07:40 GMT. In London<\/strong>, the FTSE 100<\/strong> is down 0.26%<\/strong> and in Frankfurt,<\/strong> the Dax<\/strong> is down 0.24%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The EuroStoxx 50<\/strong> index is up 0.07%<\/strong>, the FTSEurofirst 300<\/strong> is down 0.14%<\/strong> and the Stoxx 600<\/strong> is down 0.15%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Several Federal Reserve officials, including “doves”<\/em> Mary Daly and Charles Evans, said on Tuesday that they and their colleagues remained resolute and “totally united” in raising US interest rates to a level that would more significantly curb economic activity and control inflation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On the diplomatic front, China<\/strong> strongly condemned the visit to Taiwan<\/strong> by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/strong>, who hailed the parliament in Taipei as “one of the freest societies in the world”.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n […][\/vc_column_text][vc_cta h2=”This article is reserved for subscribers.” h2_font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:16|text_align:left” h2_use_theme_fonts=”yes” h4=”Subscribe now !” h4_font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:32|text_align:left|line_height:bas” h4_use_theme_fonts=”yes” txt_align=”center” color=”black” add_button=”right” btn_title=”I SUBSCRIBE !” btn_color=”danger” btn_size=”lg” btn_align=”center” use_custom_fonts_h2=”true” use_custom_fonts_h4=”true” btn_button_block=”true” btn_custom_onclick=”true” btn_link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fluxus-plus.com%2Fen%2Fsubscriptions-and-newsletter-special-offer-valid-until-september-30-2020-2-2%2F”]Get unlimited access to all articles and live a new reading experience, preview contents, exclusive newsletters…<\/p>\n<\/h4>\n
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The main European stock markets are starting August calmly. The latter are moving in disorder but with small gaps at the beginning of the session on Wednesday, torn between the publication of some corporate results, the Taiwanese issue and the tone considered restrictive taken the day before by several officials of the US Federal Reserve.<\/h4>\n