The Paris Bourse is trading at equilibrium, around 7335 points, in a market deserted by investors this summer, with barely 500 ME traded since the opening.
Moreover, there are no statistical releases on the agenda.

Consequently, movements are likely to be limited on the eve of the Assumption Day holiday, which will see the Milan and Vienna stock exchanges remain closed.

It should be remembered that today's summer trough is a traditionally calm period for the markets, which tend to stick to the trends of previous weeks.

This year's characteristics are as follows: a soft landing scenario is gaining strength in the USA, but activity is clearly losing momentum in Europe, supporting the dollar and weakening the euro.

Despite the summer weather, a number of economic data releases are expected this week in the US, including retail sales and industrial production figures.

Wednesday's minutes of the Federal Reserve's latest meeting could also provide valuable clues as to its monetary policy plans.

Bond yields remain at very high levels, penalizing the equity market: in the USA, the yield on t-bonds has reached 4.18% (+0.4 pt), while in Europe the German bund and the French OAT are stable at around 2.61% and 3.15% respectively.

In French company news, Canal+ Group, Vivendi's television subsidiary, announces the arrival in France of the DAZN sports service in its sports offerings from August 12, as well as the distribution of the Canal+ Ligue 1 channel in the DAZN application.

Valneva announces that the US FDA has extended, from the end of August to the end of November, its target date for completing the regulatory review of the marketing authorization application for VLA1553, its candidate vaccine against chikungunya.

RCI Banque, the Renault group's financing subsidiary, announced on Monday that it had reached an agreement to sell its Russian leasing subsidiary to Insight Investment Group.

Egide announced on Monday that it intended to launch a capital increase to kick-start the turnaround of its US subsidiaries, which it had previously planned to sell off, an announcement that sent the hermetic enclosure manufacturer's share price tumbling.

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