{"id":8101,"date":"2021-03-17T09:10:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T09:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/03\/17\/cac-40-little-changed-as-focus-turns-to-fed\/"},"modified":"2021-03-17T09:10:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T09:10:39","slug":"cac-40-little-changed-as-focus-turns-to-fed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/03\/17\/cac-40-little-changed-as-focus-turns-to-fed\/","title":{"rendered":"CAC 40 Little Changed As Focus Turns To Fed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> French stocks were little changed on Wednesday as investors awaited the outcome of the Federal Reserve&#8217;s two-day monetary policy meeting later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The Fed will conclude its March meeting at 2:00 pm ET. The central bank is widely expected to leave interest rates unchanged, but traders will be paying close attention to any changes in the accompanying statement.<\/p>\n<p>Market participants are focused on the Fed&#8217;s outlook for rates and the <span class=\"landLinks\">economy<\/span> amid improving economic situation.<\/p>\n<p>All eyes are on Powell&#8217;s comments regarding the central bank&#8217;s plans to address rising yields in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark CAC 40 index was marginally lower at 6,051 after closing up 0.3 percent on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Automaker Renault jumped around 3 percent after German rival BMW forecast significant year-on-year increase in group profit in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Europe&#8217;s new car registrations logged another double-digit decline in February as the Covid-19 containment measures and uncertainty continue to weigh on demand, the European Automobile Manufacturers&#8217; Association said. <\/p>\n<p>New car registrations declined 19.3 percent year-on-year in February, but slower than the 24 percent decrease seen in January. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/p>\n<\/div><\/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 Little Changed As Focus Turns To Fed<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-03-17 09:10:39<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French stocks were little changed on Wednesday as investors awaited the outcome of the Federal Reserve&#8217;s two-day monetary policy meeting later in the day. The Fed will conclude its March&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8102,"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-8101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101","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=8101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/8102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}