(BFM Stock Exchange) – The main index of the Paris Stock Exchange continues a second falling session still weighted by Schneider Electric which lost 7.5%. The title of the manufacturer of electrical equipment has still been in shock from the earthquake caused by the Chinese group Deepseek.

The Paris Stock Exchange fails on the thread to recover in working order. The CAC 40 which had evolved a good part of the session in positive territory, closed down 0.12% to return under 7,900 points, to 7,897.37 points.

The Parisian square is still shaken by doubts about American tech, with the emergence of the Chinese group Deepseek in the AI ​​market. The young Chinese company has created a shock wave on the market, with models of language that would have been developed at a largely lower cost than those built by American tech groups. These fears plunged Nvidia by almost 17% on Monday.

On the Paris Stock Exchange, the groups exposed to data centers, a segment whose growth was doped by the development of AI, remained under pressure. Including Schneider Electric, which offers many products to manage the energy efficiency of data centers, which further fell 7.5%, the day after a fall of 9.5% on Monday. Legrand has dropped by 1.1%.

The Deepseek storm should not make you forget the very busy news of the week. The European Central Bank and the American Federal Reserve will both deliver their monetary policy decisions.

Before the Fed’s decision on its monetary policy, investors learned of an index of confidence of the American consumer below expectations. Measured by the Conference Board, this household morale barometer across the Atlantic fell to 104.1 points in January, against 109.5 in December.

Alten and Sartorius Stedim reassure

The results season will also intensify. In the United States, Microsoft, Meta, Tesla and Apple will publish their accounts, while in Paris LVMH kicked off the CAC 40 on Tuesday after the closing of the market.

Capgemini won 3.7% supported by the robust activity of the German software publisher SAP whose solutions he incorporates his customers.

Excluding CAC 40, Sartorius Stedim Biotech won 8%. The group has published preliminary annual results that have gone beyond expectations.

Alten picked up 7.7% after registering a worse than feared activity for the last quarter of 2024.

Planisware ended up 7.2%, supported by a contract with the American Defense Group Northrop Grumman who chose to deploy the solutions of the French company throughout its organization.

On the other markets, the euro is slightly 0.1% in front of the dollar at $ 1.0426. Oil is decreasing. The March contract on the Brent de Mer of the North gives up 0.3% to $ 75.94 per barrel while the same maturity on the WTI listed in New York gives 0.3% to $ 72.98 per barrel.