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LStock market euphoria continues for the CAC40. After having already damaged its document a number of occasions in current weeks, the index crossed the unprecedented milestone of 8,000 factors to settle at 8,029 items throughout the session. In 4 and a half months, the CAC40 has grown at a breakneck tempo of 18%. And the nice efficiency of enormous firms doesn’t alone clarify this surge.

If the digital providers Capgemini or the banks BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole are doing nicely, with will increase in session above 2%, traders' optimism lies elsewhere. The President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, introduced earlier right this moment that the physique's key charges could be maintained at 4%, the edge set in October.

Above all, Christine Lagarde lowered the forecast for a discount in inflation, assessing it at 2.3% in 2024 (in comparison with 2.9% right this moment), 2% in 2025 and 1.9% in 2026. However, the ECB has not but selected a future charge lower, imitating the place of the American Federal Reserve (Fed) a number of days earlier.

Nvidia insanity within the United States

In addition to the Parisian CAC40, the inventory exchanges of New York, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and even Copenhagen have additionally damaged their valuation data in 2024. Across the Atlantic, Wall Street is pushed by the outcomes of the chip design firm Nvidia electronics.

The latter are in actual fact important to the event of synthetic intelligence. The firm is now the third most traded on the New York Stock Exchange, behind Apple and Microsoft, and is pulling your entire know-how sector in its wake. Some economists concern the formation of a speculative bubble sooner or later.


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