(BFM Stock Exchange) – The Parisian star index decreases this Thursday, September 4, slowed down by its luxury compartment and Sanofi whose results of a clinical trial did not content the stock market. In the United States, the latest employment statistics were lower than expectations.

Small step back for the Paris Stock Exchange. The CAC 40 closes this session of Thursday, September 4, dropped by 0.27% to 7,698.92 points, penalized by the withdrawal of Sanofi and the luxury compartment.

The Parisian square therefore does less well than its European counterparts. Frankfurt closed up 0.74%, and London, for example, sold 0.42%.

See you Friday

On the side of Wall Street, the main clues evolved slightly. Investors have been busy dissecting numerous employment figures published in the afternoon, which proved to be lower than expectations.

According to the ADP/Standford Lab monthly survey, the United States has created 54,000 jobs in the private sector, against 75,000 positions expected by consensus and after 106,000 in July. Weekly unemployed registrations increased at 237,000 during the week of August 30 against 229,000 the previous week.

“Upstream of the publication of the August employment report, indicators relating to the labor market mark a very clear slowdown in the labor market. This should be enough for the FED to drop its 25 basis rates (0.25 percentage points) in two weeks. A poor report on employment for the month of August and/or annual revisions of the very negative level of employment (published on September 9) could even open the way to 50 Basic points “, notes Bastien Drut, head of strategy and economic studies at CPRAM.

Still in the euro zone, investors have also read a higher than expected retail sales in the monetary union. In July, they contracted 0.5% when they had increased by 0.6% in June.

Sanofi in hard

On the values ​​side, Sanofi fell 8.3%, the positive results of the pharmaceutical laboratory in atopic dermatitis not contenting the stock market. What weighs on the Parisian market given its significant weight in CAC 40.

The luxury compartment was also poorly oriented, with LVMH which lost 4.2%, Kering 1.6%and Hermès 1.4%.

On the side of the small and medium capitalizations, Lisi gave 9.6%, after the sale of a block of shares of Peugeot Invest at a price of 39 euros per share, which represents a discount of 11% compared to Wednesday evening.

On the other markets, the euro fell 0.12% against the greenback at 1.1647 dollars. Oil is further declining. The November contract on the Brent de Mer of the North gives up 0.9% to 66.98 Dollars a barrel while that of October on the WTI listed in New York gives 0.80% to 63.46 Dollars per barrel.