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The Paris Bourse has gained over 2.7%

Wednesday Jul 7, 2010

As in Asia this morning, the CAC 40 has taken great colors on Tuesday. The benchmark index of the Paris closed up 2.73% and finished well beyond 3400 points, 3423 points exactly. Investors changed course in Paris while on Monday, the ACC has approached its lowest level this year at 3332 points (-0.48%).

Elsewhere in Europe, the same trend: the Ibex-35 index of the Madrid Stock Exchange Tuesday ended up 3.59% at 9615 points, strongly supported by banking stocks and the FTSE in London gained 2.93% to 4965 points while in Frankfurt the Dax was 2.15% awarded to 5940 points.

The euro also continues to rise, which was accentuated in session after the publication of an ISM service activities in the United States still above 50. Around 18 heurse, EUO rises from 0.84% to 1.2649 dollar.

Despite this rebound, volatility remains very strong markets.These days, investors were not reassured by the mixed indicators published last week, the United States as in the euro area. The doubts about the speed of global economic recovery weighed increasingly on morale.

On Tuesday afternoon, the markets await the opening of Wall Street may choose to pursue. U.S. markets open again after an extended weekend related to the national holiday. The meeting will begin with the analysis of the PMI services which will be published shortly after the opening. Apart from this indicator, no other major news is expected.

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Alstom was up 4.46% to 38.4 euros. The Saudi-French consortium, joining Alstom and SNCF, has in fact likely to report a TGV project in Saudi Arabia.Contract Amount: at least 10 billion dollars according to Philippe Mellier, President and CEO of Alstom.

The rating is also taken up by the rebound in bank Credit Agricole (5.43%), Societe Generale (6.27%) and BNP Paribas (4.23%) are among the highest increases.

Air France (Air France-KLM), which posted a record loss last year, plans to cut 4109 jobs over the period 2010-2012 to meet the air transport crisis. The stock gained 3% to 9.81 euros.

Areva (0.81% to 328.65 euros) should always be led by Anne Lauvergeon. According to sources close to the matter quoted by Agence France Presse, Nicolas Sarkozy has decided to maintain the group's boss at his post until the end of his mandate.Rumors had often reported the contrary.

Also in the nuclear site EPR Flamanville, led by EDF (+1.3% at 30.67 euros) also suffer delays. An audit suggests a period of 24 months. EDF expected to make the announcement soon.

Finally, investors should still respond to the publication by Stephane Richard's strategic plan of France Telecom (2.68% to 14.75 euros) for 5 years. The operator also wishes to reach 300 million customers around the world to this date and hire 10,000 people by 2012.

Please note that Club Med has increased by almost 15% Tuesday.

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