{"id":58151,"date":"2025-04-02T10:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/04\/02\/cac-40-modestly-lower-in-cautious-trade-3\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:06:14","slug":"cac-40-modestly-lower-in-cautious-trade-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/04\/02\/cac-40-modestly-lower-in-cautious-trade-3\/","title":{"rendered":"CAC 40 Modestly Lower In Cautious Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> French stocks are down Wednesday morning on a fresh round of selling by investors ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;reciprocal tariff&#8221; announcement later in the day. <\/p>\n<p>The market gained some ground on Tuesday after few weak sessions, but the mood has turned cautious today amid fears the U.S. President&#8217;s trade policies might push up inflation and hurt global economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>The new tariff rates will take effect immediately after they are announced by U.S. President Donald Trump at 2000 GMT.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark CAC 40, which dropped to 7,811.00 in early trades, was down 33.32 points or 0.42% at 7,843.04 a few minutes ago.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus is down more than 2.5%. Sanofi is declining 2.4% and Edenred is down by about 2.2%. Societe Generale is down nearly 2%.<\/p>\n<p>BNP Paribas and Thales are down 1.8% and 1.7%, respectively. Capgemini, Michelin and Safran are declining 0.9 to 1%. ArcelorMittal, Essilor and Eurofins Scientific are modestly lower.<\/p>\n<p>Engie is up nearly 2%. Pernod Ricard, Carrefour, Kering and AXA are gaining 1 to 1.25%.<\/p>\n<p>Dassault Systemes, L&#8217;Oreal, Vinci, Bouygues, Publicis Groupe, Renault, Hermes International, Air Liquide and Stellantis are up with modest gains.<\/p>\n<p>On the economic front, data showed France&#8217;s government budget deficit narrowed to EUR 40.3 billion in February 2025 from EUR 44.0 billion in the corresponding period of the previous year. Total revenues rose 12.6% year-on-year to EUR 45.2 billion, while expenditures increased at a softer 3.6% to EUR 77.8 billion. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>CAC 40 Modestly Lower In Cautious Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-04-02 10:06:14<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French stocks are down Wednesday morning on a fresh round of selling by investors ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;reciprocal tariff&#8221; announcement later in the day. The market gained&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-euro-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/58152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}