Paris (AFP)

The Paris Bourse ignored the new restrictions announced in France on Thursday, arrogating to itself 0.59% at the close of the first session of the month before closing until Tuesday for the long Easter weekend.

The CAC 40 index gained 35.73 points to 6,102.96 points the day after a decline of 0.34%.

"The market continues on its upward trajectory. Even if we have bad news in France, progress on vaccination is significant in the United States and Great Britain", comments for AFP Laurent Le Grin, CEO of DPAM France.

In addition, the ambitious infrastructure program of US President Joe Biden "goes in the direction of central banks calling for fiscal stimulus", and contributes to the "period conducive to optimism in the markets", he continues. .

In the United States, US President Joe Biden on Wednesday proposed from Pittsburgh to invest some $ 2,000 billion in infrastructure, with the stated objective of creating “millions of jobs”, standing up to China and fighting against climate change.

On the other hand, investors have shown little sensitivity to the surprise increase in weekly jobless claims, which passed the 700,000 claims mark last week in the United States, preferring to welcome the higher than expected increase in the manufacturing sector in March.

The WHO denounced Thursday the slowness of vaccination in Europe, deeming the epidemic situation particularly "worrying" on this continent where several countries have had to tighten their health measures, like France.

The closure of schools, feared by companies and announced Wednesday evening by Emmanuel Macron, will again disrupt economic activity over the coming weeks, even if the school holidays should reduce the impact.

Atos stumbles on his accounts

The auditors of Atos have issued a reservation on its 2020 accounts in the United States, a snub that plunged the title on the stock market (-12.42% to 58.26 euros) and fueled a certain mistrust of investors towards a group deemed insufficiently transparent.

Vinci builds in the renewable

Vinci climbed 2.93% to 89.92 euros after announcing it would acquire the energy business of Spanish construction group ACS for around 4.9 billion euros, in order to become an industry big renewable energies.

Danone refines its plan

The title of agribusiness giant Danone lost 0.48% to 58.22 euros.

The group said Thursday that it planned to cut 1,850 jobs worldwide, including 458 in France as part of its reorganization project announced in November.

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