Paris (AFP)

The Paris Bourse remained in the green Tuesday at midday (+ 0.24%), but without much conviction between fragile indicators and a new political development in the United Kingdom to two weeks of Brexit.

At 13:23 (11H23 GMT), the CAC 40 index took 13.71 points to 5,644.39 points, in a trade volume of 858 million euros. The day before, he had finished down 1.05%.

The Paris rating started slightly up and has not changed since.

Wall Street was preparing to open up as well. The index futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average index rose 0.39%, the broad index S & P 500 0.41% and the Nasdaq, strong technological color, 0.48%.

"Stocks in Europe have recovered slightly from yesterday's decline" after indicators of PMI activities in Germany particularly fragile, "said David Madden, an analyst at CMC Markets.

"But the questions persist, according to him, on the good health of the economy of the euro zone", which prevents a rebound with "investors always a little cautious".

The growth in private activity in the euro area, published Monday morning, reached its lowest level since June 2013. The general weakening of the economic situation mainly resulted from an acceleration of the contraction in the manufacturing sector but the The services sector has also registered one of its lowest levels since 2014.

The morale barometer of German entrepreneurs in September did not come to darken the picture since it has slightly recovered. In France, the business climate also improved a little for the same month of September.

But these two statistics were not enough to give a real impetus to the index especially since shortly after, the British Supreme Court has unanimously deemed illegal the suspension of Parliament decided by Boris Johnson and estimated that he had to sit again "as soon as possible", reviving the two-week Brexit speculations.

But the scope of the announcement could be "limited", as "the government has said it will continue in its path regardless of the judgment of the Court," said Hewson.

On the other side of the Atlantic, the Conference Board for the same month is also on the agenda of the indicators.

- The defensive in mind -

Sign of a certain caution in the markets, the titles considered "defensive" in case of unrest were at the top of the table.

Sanofi thus took 1.49% to 84.94 euros, L'Oréal 1.06% to 248.90 euros and Pernod Ricard 0.82% to

Veolia was boosted (+ 1.47% to 22.80 euros) by the resumption of monitoring of its title by Citi with a recommendation to "buy".

Groupe Crit rose 4.30% to 63.10 euros, with investors welcoming the Group's confidence for the year despite a decline in net income, Group share in the first half, due to a charge related to the exit of CICE.

Guerbet took 2.58% to 51.70 euros. The group announced a new agreement with IBM Watson Health, this time to develop artificial intelligence tools to assist in the diagnosis and monitoring of prostate cancer.

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