The Parisian odds, which had ended sharply down 1.72% Thursday after a triptych of records at the start of the year, gave up 30.18 points to 7,219.48 points.
Over the week, the CAC 40 index gained 0.93%.
The US economy created 199,000 jobs in December when the consensus expected almost double (440,000), but the unemployment rate nonetheless continued to decline and this, more than expected, falling to 3.9% (-0.3 percentage point).
A sign of the tension that persists in the labor market, wages rose 0.6% over the last month in the United States.
Most analysts, however, believe that these elements should not change its mind, as it prepares to hike interest rates in three months.
This somewhat muted stock market movement "attests to a neutral reaction" to this monthly publication which gives "contrary signals" with, on the one hand, disappointing job creations in December but on the other, a rate of unemployment down sharply, indicates Mikaël Jacoby, head of continental Europe brokerage at Oddo Securities.
In terms of health, "we are also in a kind of half-hearted", he underlines, with a Covid-19 pandemic which has continued its outbreak this week in the world while deaths have remained in decline.
Raw materials profit
Inflation benefited ArcelorMittal (+ 3.40% to 30.53 euros), Eramet (+ 2.88% to 78.70 euros) or even TotalEnergies (+ 1.14% to 46.46 euros).
Banks driven by the rise in interest rates
Crédit Agricole (+ 1.01%), BNP Paribas (+ 0.48%) and Société Générale (+ 1.07%) securities benefited from the rise in long rates on the sovereign debt market.
New partnership for Sanofi
The French laboratory Sanofi (+ 0.52% to 88.60 euros) announced that it had entered into a licensing and research agreement with Exscientia, a British specialist in the design of drugs using artificial intelligence, with payment initial $ 100 million.
Trigano picks up speed
The share climbed 5.83% to 183.44 euros.
The European leader in leisure vehicles (motorhomes, etc.) reported a 9.2% increase in turnover in the first quarter of its postponed 2021/2022 fiscal year, but noted the still disruptive supply difficulties for his activity.
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