The Paris Bourse ended Thursday down slightly (-0.27%), investors remaining on the defensive, very concerned about the slowdown in growth and the Sino-US trade war. The CAC 40 index lost 14.37 points to 5.236.93 points, in a moderate trade volume of 3.64 billion euros. The day before, he had finished on a fall of 2.08%.
Yoyo all day
The Parisian coast, normally open despite the Assumption holiday, started on a small rebound, before playing happily yoyo much of the session. "The session was very volatile, driven by a strong activity on futures contracts that generates sales movements and purchases permanently", hence these shaking incessant, said Daniel Larrouturou, equity manager at Dôm Finance. "The trend has worsened with the announcement in the press that the Chinese authorities provided retaliatory measures" to the announcement of additional US taxes of 10% on $ 300 billion of Chinese imports, said the specialist.