{"id":61888,"date":"2025-07-14T11:15:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/07\/14\/cac-40-moderately-lower-as-trade-war-concerns-hurt-sentiment\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:15:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:15:34","slug":"cac-40-moderately-lower-as-trade-war-concerns-hurt-sentiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/07\/14\/cac-40-moderately-lower-as-trade-war-concerns-hurt-sentiment\/","title":{"rendered":"CAC 40 Moderately Lower As Trade War Concerns Hurt Sentiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> French stocks are down in negative territory on Monday, weighed down by trade war concerns following U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s threat that he would impose a 30% tariff on EU imports from August 1.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the European Union has reportedly prepared a \u20ac21 billion ($24.52 billion) tariff package targeting American goods if trade talks between the two sides collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark CAC 40 was down 40.61 points or 0.52% at 7,788.68 a little while ago. <\/p>\n<p>French defense-related stocks are finding some support after President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday called for a massive boost to France&#8217;s defense spending, citing a greater threat from Russia. <\/p>\n<p>Hermes International, down nearly 2%, is the biggest loser in the CAC 40 index. Pernod Ricard is down 1.9% and LVMH is down by about 1.7%.<\/p>\n<p>STMicroElectronics, Teleperformance, Kering and Schneider Electric are down 1.3 to 1.5%.  Legrand, Stellantis, Dassault Systemes, Saint Gobain, Capgemini, ArcelorMittal, L&#8217;Oreal and Renault are also notably lower.<\/p>\n<p>Thales, up 1.7%, is the top gainer. Orange is gaining about 1.5%. Danone, Michelin, Engie, Bouygues, TotalEnergies and Accor are up with modest gains. <\/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 Moderately Lower As Trade War Concerns Hurt Sentiment<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-07-14 11:15:34<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French stocks are down in negative territory on Monday, weighed down by trade war concerns following U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s threat that he would impose a 30% tariff on EU&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61888","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=61888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/61889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}