Paris (AFP)

The Paris Bourse ended without trend (+ 0.10%) Monday, at the end of a session that was not very lively in the absence of American investors, except by the strong start of Stellantis, the result of the marriage between PSA and Fiat Chrysler.

The CAC 40 index clawed 5.58 points to 5,617.27 points, stabilizing after losing 1.67% over the whole of last week, affected by renewed concerns about the health crisis.

"It's a very calm start to the week" due to the closure of the American markets due to a public holiday, but "a bit of a sham" because the next few days promise to be dense and diversified, analysis for AFP Alexandre Baradez, analyst at IG France.

"We are going to have both monetary issues with the meeting of the ECB and the Bank of Japan on Thursday, political issues with the inauguration of Joe Biden as well as macroeconomics with the PMI indicators expected at the end of the week," he sums up.

Without forgetting "all the microeconomics which will become denser from tomorrow on the American side" with the results of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America or even Halliburton, adds Mr. Baradez.

Rare indicator on Monday's agenda, the Chinese growth figure - of 2.3% last year - weighed on the start of Parisian trade, the world economy traditionally being very dependent on the health of China .

That's a relatively high GDP, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, while most major economies remain in recession, but it's a low for more than 40 years.

Industrial production grew only 2.8% for the year as a whole, the lowest figure at least since the turn of the century.

In terms of values, the meeting was animated by the good debut on the stock market of Stellantis, a new group resulting from the marriage of PSA and Fiat Chrysler, listed since Monday in Paris and Milan.

With 14 brands, Stellantis jumped 6.94% to 13.44 euros for its first day of trading in Paris, and 7.57% to 13.52 euros in Milan.

End of the stock market boom for the French distribution group Carrefour (-6.92% to 15.46 euros), whose price has returned to more or less the level it had before the revelations Wednesday on merger discussions with the Canadian Couche-Tard.

A prospect of a merger quickly showered by a veto from the French government, even if the CEO of Couche-Tard said on Monday that he would be ready to attempt a new merger if the situation developed favorably in France.

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