{"id":68853,"date":"2026-01-19T10:47:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T10:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/19\/cac-40-down-sharply-on-widespread-selling\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T10:47:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T10:47:49","slug":"cac-40-down-sharply-on-widespread-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/19\/cac-40-down-sharply-on-widespread-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"CAC 40 Down Sharply On Widespread Selling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> French stocks fell sharply Monday morning as rising geopolitical tensions and announcement of more more tariffs on several EU nations by the Trump administration rendered the mood bearish.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the country moved closer to a budget agreement after Prime Minister Sebastien Lecomu made some concessions to secure socialist backing.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump has doubled down on his plan to acquire Greenland, saying NATO had warned Denmark for years about the &#8220;Russian threat&#8221; to Greenland and claimed Copenhagen had failed to act.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now it is time, and it will be done!!!&#8221; Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform ahead of this week&#8217;s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. President&#8217;s announcement of a 10% tariff on several EU countries from next month, which raises the tariff on all imports to US to 25%, and reports that EU is consideriang retaliatory move against the U.S. weighed on stocks.<\/p>\n<p>The EU is reported to be considering tariffs of 93 billion euros of US goods or restricting US firms&#8217; access to its internal market.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark CAC 40 was down 127.00 points or 1.54% at 8,131.94 a few minutes ago.<\/p>\n<p>STMicroElectronics, down 4.3%, was the biggest loser in the CAC 40 index. LVMH slipped nearly 4% and Hermes International lost about 3.1%. <\/p>\n<p>Kering, Hermes International, Dassault Systemes, Renault, Capgemini and Saint Gobain lost 2 to 2.7%. Pernod Ricard and Schneider Electric declined nearly 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Legrand, Michelin, Stellantis, BNP Paribas, Sanofi, TotalEnergies, AXA, Unibail Rodamco and EssilorLuxottica also suffered notable losses.<\/p>\n<p>Among the gainers, Thales climbed more than 3% after reaffirming its 2025 earnings outlook. Orange advanced by 2.3%. Euronext, Safran and Carrefour gained 0.4 to 0.8% <\/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 Down Sharply On Widespread Selling<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-19 10:47:49<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French stocks fell sharply Monday morning as rising geopolitical tensions and announcement of more more tariffs on several EU nations by the Trump administration rendered the mood bearish. 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