(BFM Stock Exchange) – The Parisian index is evolving around its balance point this Wednesday, February 12, while investors are waiting for American inflation figures for the month of January.

Another somewhat wait -and -see session for the Paris Stock Exchange. The CAC 40 nibbles 0.03% to 8,031.42 points this Wednesday, February 12.

Investors will monitor the publication at 2:30 p.m. of the consumer price index, the best known gauge to measure inflation in the United States. Economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal await a rate of 3.1% over a year in January for inflation excluding energy and food.

These figures will be published while the president of the American Federal Reserve (Fed), Jerome Powell, said during his hearing before a commission of the US Senate on Tuesday, that the American central bank was not in a hurry to lower its rates.

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Kering at the top of the CAC 40

“Inflation remains rather high and is still not in a certain trajectory of convergence towards the target of 2 %. Today, inflation statistics for January are likely to confirm the slow deceleration”, explains Sebastian Paris Horvitz de LBPAM. “In this context, according to Jerome Powell, the Fed does not have to rush to continue to lower the rates. This message has been heard by the market, with long -term interest rates that have been a bit tense “He adds.

On the values ​​side, Kering signs the highest increase in CAC 40, taking 5.6% in the aftermath of annual results a little less bad than expected.

Renault won 1.4% while the president of the Taiwanese group Foxconn, Young Liu, told Bloomberg to be open to the acquisition of the French group’s participation in Nissan.

Carrefour grabes 0.1% after announcing its intention to rise to 100% of the capital of its Brazilian subsidiary and get it out of the scholarship.

On the side of the smallest companies, EXAIL Technologies jumped 16.50% while the company obtained a contract of several hundred million euros from a “primary navy” (the customer did not wanted to reveal its exact identity) for a drone system.

In other markets, the euro takes 0.18% against the dollar at 1.0382 dollars. Oil is retreating. The April contract on the Brent de Mer northern drops from 1.2% to $ 76.13 a barrel while that of March on the WTI listed in New York cedes 1.3% to 72.35 Dollars per barrel.