The Paris stock market ended the session with a gain of 1.51%, at 7,295 points, driven in particular by Axa (+3.4%), Renault (+2.8%) and Michelin (+2.7%), a performance that enabled it to erase a large part of Friday's decline (-1.8%), a fall then attributed to a US inflation figure that upset investors.

In the early afternoon, the markets were able to take note of the US durable goods orders figure. According to the Commerce Department, these orders fell by 4.5% last month, following a 5.1% increase in December.

Nevertheless, excluding transportation equipment, whose orders plunged by 13.3% month-on-month, US durable goods orders managed to rise by 0.7% in January.

While the markets are still in a state of limbo as to the evolution of central bank monetary policy, the ECB will hold its Governing Council meeting in Frankfurt on Thursday March 16, followed on March 21 and 22 by the Federal Reserve, which will convene its Monetary Policy Committee (FOMC).

On the statistics front, investors will be paying particular attention to the publication of the latest European manufacturing PMIs on Wednesday, before the release of the latest eurozone inflation figures the following day.

After the European indicators, the market will follow the announcement of the ISM services index in the United States on Friday.

On the bond front, unlike in Europe, where OATs are tightening to 3.05% vs. 3.01% on Friday, T-Bonds are improving slightly, to 3.92 vs. 3.95%, the Dollar is suffering the consequences (7Pts yield differential) and is down -0.5% towards 1.0600/E.

In company news, SES (-3.4%) reports adjusted net profit for 2022 down 41.5% to 189 million euros, but adjusted EBITDA up 1.3% to just over 1.1 billion euros and sales up 9.1% to around 1.94 billion.

Thales announces plans to recruit more than 12,000 employees by 2023, in order to sustain its strong growth momentum in its three business sectors of aerospace, defense-security and digital identity-security.

On the occasion of the 2023 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Schneider Electric, Capgemini and Qualcomm announce their collaboration to implement an innovative 5G automated lifting solution for industrial environments.

Finally, Airbus unveiled on Monday its ambitions in the Pacific zone, where the aircraft manufacturer plans to deliver 920 new aircraft over the next 20 years. Airbus sees the region as a "key" market. At present, its order book in the region totals 166 aircraft, representing 75% of total orders in hand.

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