{"id":70735,"date":"2026-03-06T12:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/03\/06\/cac-40-slips-after-positive-start-down-more-than-1\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:01:30","slug":"cac-40-slips-after-positive-start-down-more-than-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/03\/06\/cac-40-slips-after-positive-start-down-more-than-1\/","title":{"rendered":"CAC 40 Slips After Positive Start, Down More Than 1%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> After an initial upmove, the French stock market&#8217;s benchmark CAC 40 retreated and slipped into negative territory on Friday amid concerns about growth as the Middle East War entered its seventh day.<\/p>\n<p>Stocks gained earlier in the session after the US granted India a 30-day waiver to continue purchasing Russian oil, aiming to stabilize supply amid the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The CAC 40, which advanced to 8,104.77 earlier in the session, was down 81.19 points or 1.01% at 7,964.61 a little while ago. <\/p>\n<p>Eiffage, STMicroelectronics and Bouygues are down 3.1%, 3% and 2.8%, respectively. Vinci, Orange and EssilorLuxottica are down 2%-2.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Air Liquide, Accor, Veolia Environment, Dassault Systemes, Saint Gobain, Sanofi, Michelin and Engie are also notably lower.<\/p>\n<p>Thales is rising 1.3%. Safran, Capgemini, Publicis Groupe, TotalEnergie and BNP Paribas are up with modest gains.<\/p>\n<p>In economic news, data from Eurostat showed the number of employed persons in the Euro Area rose by 0.2% from the previous quarter to 172.6 million in the final quarter of 2025, confirming the preliminary estimate, and above the initial market expectations of a 0.1% expansion. It was the bloc&#8217;s 19th consecutive period of employment growth,<\/p>\n<p>The Euro Area <span class=\"landLinks\">economy<\/span> grew 1.2% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2025, revised down from an initial estimate of 1.3%. The figure marks the slowest annual growth in more than a year, easing from a 1.4% expansion in the previous quarter. <\/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 Slips After Positive Start, Down More Than 1%<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-03-06 12:01:30<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an initial upmove, the French stock market&#8217;s benchmark CAC 40 retreated and slipped into negative territory on Friday amid concerns about growth as the Middle East War entered its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70735","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\/70735","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=70735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/70736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}