After last week's turmoil, the Paris Bourse is expected to rise slightly on Monday to kick off another busy week of corporate results and major economic events.

At around 8:15 a.m., the CAC 40 index futures contract - for November delivery - recovered 22 points to 6,830, suggesting a return above the 6,800 mark at the opening.

The Paris market had conceded 0.3% last week, penalized in particular by the heavily punished earnings warnings from Sanofi and Worldline.

Investors reacted little, however, to the ECB's "status quo", which suggested that a pause in its monetary tightening process did not mean the end of its rate hike cycle.

Spreads are likely to remain limited on Monday as we await the many major earnings releases and indicators expected in the coming days.

The week that opens today promises to be another busy one, with the US Federal Reserve meeting expected to extend its pause on rates in view of the confirmed slowdown in inflation.

Monetary policy decisions by the Bank of Japan (BoJ) tomorrow and the Bank of England (BoE) on Thursday will also be closely watched.

The macroeconomic agenda for the days ahead also promises to be busy, with the first estimates of third-quarter economic growth in the Eurozone and October inflation in the Eurozone due tomorrow.

But the highlight of the week will be the US non-farm payrolls for October, due out on Friday.

Economists are expecting only 190,000 new jobs to be created last month, a marked slowdown on September's 336,000, due to the impact of the UAW strike.

Market participants will also be taking note of a series of corporate results, including Apple's on Thursday after the close of Wall Street.

At this stage of the earnings season, some 49% of S&P 500 companies have already published their quarterly results, and 78% of them have exceeded consensus, according to data published by FactSet.

On the New York Stock Exchange, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq lost more than 2% last week and have now entered correction territory, down more than 10% from their July highs.

On the bond front, however, tensions continue to ease on yields after the sharp rise of recent weeks.

The US 10-year yield confirmed its return below the 4.85% threshold after jumping to 5.02% early last week, setting a new high since 2007.

Oil prices extended their decline of the past week due to a less favorable outlook with the expected slowdown in global growth.

Brent crude dropped 1.2% to $89.4 a barrel, while U.S. light crude (West Texas Intermediate, WTI) was down 1.5% at $84.3.

The situation on the market is likely to change very quickly, however, as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict intensifies following the destructive shooting and bombing of Gaza over the weekend.

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