Paris (AFP)

Nothing seemed more likely to stop the ascent of the Paris Stock Exchange to 6,000 points Monday at midday (+ 1.04%), the prospect of an orderly Brexit and a Sino-American trade truce filling all his hopes.

At 1:47 p.m. (12:47 p.m. GMT), the CAC 40 index rose from 61.72 points to 5,980.74 points, after having reached 5,981.15 points in session, a level unseen since July 24, 2007, in a trading volume of 997 million euros. On Friday, it had already finished up 0.59%.

Reinvigorated by the announcement of a trade agreement between China and the United States, the Parisian coast started the last full week of trade in the year with a winning streak, accelerating in the morning.

For its part, Wall Street was also preparing to open in the green. The futures contract on the Dow Jones Industrial Average index gained 0.14%, that on the broad S&P 500 index gained 0.40% and that on the highly technological Nasdaq appreciated 0.47 %.

"The result of the British parliament elections and therefore Brexit on Thursday, then the + phase 1+ agreement between the United States and China remove, at least in the short term, the two main risks for the financial markets and offer a better visibility for 2020 ", noted in a note Franklin Pichard, CEO of Kiplink Finance.

Beijing and Washington announced a truce in their trade war on Friday.

Pending the signing in early January of this preliminary trade agreement which remains to be laid down on paper, Beijing on Sunday waived new customs duties which should have hit American products.

For its part, the Trump administration has suspended all new surcharges on Chinese goods in the United States in exchange for Beijing's commitment to buy, in particular, more American agricultural products.

However, the questions remain "finally quite numerous concerning the content of the agreement", tempered Mr. Pichard. "We will have to know the precise details, in particular of the reduction in customs duties that the two countries impose on each other. It is therefore a positive but insufficient agreement."

Even before the announcement of this trade break, the results of the legislative elections in the United Kingdom had given a breath of fresh air to European markets Friday.

Prime winner with a large conservative majority, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced through his spokesman that he would present his Brexit agreement in the House of Commons on Friday, launching the parliamentary adoption process so that the United Kingdom leaves the European Union at the end of January.

In terms of indicators, the expansion of private sector activity in France remained virtually stable in December, however reaching its lowest level in three months, according to the PMI index from the Markit firm.

In the eurozone, it also stagnated in December, leading to the weakest expansion for the quarter since 2013.

Both industrial production and retail sales picked up last month in China, surpassing analysts' estimates, despite a context of trade war with the United States, according to official statistics released Monday.

In the United States, the New York Fed's manufacturing activity indicator for December is also on the agenda.

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In terms of values, Rubis gained 4.06% to 53.80 euros after announcing Monday to be in exclusive negotiations with the American fund I Squared Capital to sell it 45% of its subsidiary for storing liquid products Rubis Terminal.

Vicat benefited (+ 6.20% to 41.10 euros) from an increase in its recommendation to "outperform" against "underperform" previously by Barclays.

Casino rose 3.19% to 43.31 euros. The distribution group wishes to take "exclusive" control of 198 points of sale held so far jointly with its main franchisee, the Zouari group, according to a press release from the French Competition Authority.

Vivendi took 0.87% to 25.43 euros in the wake of the announcement that Canal +, the group's channel, will be the only French distributor of the new Disney + streaming service, whose arrival is scheduled for France on March 31, 2020.

Safran, whose joint venture with General Electric fitted Leap engines to all Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, however lost 1.62% to 142.40 euros while the aircraft manufacturer Boeing could unveil its intentions regarding the production of its nailed 737 MAX aircraft on Monday. on the ground since mid-March, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Lagardère fell 0.55% to 19.93 euros. The group, engaged in a refocusing strategy, announced Monday a plan to sell 75% of Lagardère Sports to the private equity fund HIG Capital, while anticipating a depreciation of 210 to 240 million euros after the loss of a contract with the African Football Confederation (CAF).

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