{"id":68463,"date":"2026-01-08T11:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/08\/cac-40-modestly-lower-at-noon\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:03:14","slug":"cac-40-modestly-lower-at-noon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/08\/cac-40-modestly-lower-at-noon\/","title":{"rendered":"CAC 40 Modestly Lower At Noon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> French stocks are turning in a mixed performance in lackluster trading on Thursday with investors closely following the developments on the geopolitical front, and looking ahead to some crucial economic data from the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark CAC 40 was down 23.59 points or 0.29% at 8,210.33 at noon.<\/p>\n<p>Renault, down 4.1%, was the biggest loser in the CAC 40 index. Saint Gobain shed about 3.6%, ArcelorMittal and Stellantis lost 2.7% and 2.6%, respectively, while Schneider Electric lost nearly 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Capgemini, Legrand, Euronext, STMicroElectronics and Bureau Veritas lost 1.2 to 1.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Among the gainers, BNP Paribas moved up 2.15%, Pernod Ricard climbed 1.5%, and Danone added 1.4%, while Societe Generale and Credit Agricole gained 1.1% and 1%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>L&#8217;Oreal, Veolia Environment, Orange, Airbus, Sanofi and Engie posted modest gains.<\/p>\n<p>On the economic front, data from Eurostat showed the euro area unemployment rate dropped marginally in November, falling to 6.3% from 6.4 percent in October. The rate was expected to remain unchanged at 6.4%.<\/p>\n<p>The youth unemployment rate dropped to 14.6% from 14.8% in October. <\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in the EU27 was 6% in November, unchanged from October. <\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s trade deficit widened to \u20ac4.2 billion in December 2025 from a revised \u20ac3.5 billion in November, in line with expectations. Imports rose 2% month-on-month to \u20ac56.4 billion, while exports grew more moderately by 0.8% to \u20ac52.2 billion. <\/p>\n<\/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 At Noon<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-08 11:03:14<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French stocks are turning in a mixed performance in lackluster trading on Thursday with investors closely following the developments on the geopolitical front, and looking ahead to some crucial economic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1531412501799-1b4c354ca957?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2734&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68463","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=68463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}