(BFM Stock Exchange) – The Parisian star index closes slightly increase this Friday, July 25, after having to digest a series of corporate publications. Over the week, the CAC 40 nibbles 0.15%.

A weekend without enthusiasm for the Paris Stock Exchange. After having painfully sought a direction throughout the session, the CAC 40, on a last collar stroke, grabbed 0.21% to 7.834.58 points, at the end of this Friday, July 25.

Investors still seem to wait for a potential agreement between the European Union and the United States on customs duties. This Friday, Donald Trump said that the probability that the United States will conclude a trade agreement with the European Union was “50-50” to journalists when he left Washington for a trip to Scotland.

Thursday, the spokesman for the European Commission, Olof Gilles on Thursday, told journalists on Thursday that an agreement between the European Union and the United States was “at hand”. The day before several media had indicated that the two parties were heading for a text limiting customs surcharge inflicted on European imports to 15%, with certain sectoral exceptions. What would be very similar to the agreement between the United States and Japan, announced earlier in the week.

“The truce on customs duties recently concluded between the United States and Japan has set the tone, and the traders are already betting that Brussels will be the next to conclude a similar agreement, probably with the same ceiling of 15 %. This simple rumor was enough to modify the positions, like sailors who adjust the sails before a change of wind,” observes Stephen Innes of Spi.

LVMH takes up colors

Investors were mainly busy analyzing a new avalanche of results.

Strong increase in CAC 40, Carrefour took 5.5% after announcing a return to growth in France in the second quarter as well as the sale of its activities in Italy.

LVMH climbed 3.9%, investors relativizing the degradation of the activity its fashion and leather goods division in the second quarter and enjoying efforts on costs. Kering (+4.4%) and Hermès (+1.6%) also increased.

Red lantern of the Parisian star index, Michelin lost 3.4% after delivering an operational result of the sectors below the expectations in the first half.

Excluding CAC 40, Nexity jumped 13.5%, the property developer having brought his operating profit to the first half of his semester.

Rémy Cointreau increased by 8.1% after delivering a better activity than expected in the first quarter.

Valeo, on the other hand, fell 5.4%, punished for having delivered a half -yearly activity below expectations and lowered its annual turnover objective due to negative exchange effects.

Alten (-4.8%) and Sopra Steria (-5.3%) are also sanctioned after their respective publications.

In other markets, the euro fell 0.2% against the dollar, to 1.1729 dollars. Oil is advancing. The September contract on the Brent de Mer of the North takes 0.35% at 69.42 dollars per barrel while the same maturity on the WTI listed in New York gains 0.36% at 66.27 Dollars per barrel.