The Paris Bourse ended the day down a moderate 0.36%, at 7,611 points, penalized by Carrefour, which dropped 3.5% behind TotalEnergies (-3.1%) and Teleperformance (-2.6%).

While the statistics season is in full swing, investors kept a close eye on statistical publications throughout the session.

In particular, they were able to take note of a slight widening of the US trade deficit in December, which reached $62.2 billion versus $61.9 billion the previous month, according to the Commerce Department.

This 0.5% month-on-month increase in the deficit reflects a roughly parallel rise in US imports of goods and services, up 1.3% to $320.4 billion, and in exports, up 1.5% to $258.2 billion.

In Europe, German industrial production fell by a much steeper-than-expected 1.6% in December. These official statistics confirm the downturn in the continent's leading economy, with a sixth consecutive month of decline.

On the bond market, US Treasury yields are stagnating at around 4.1%, while its European equivalent, the German Bund, is up 7 points at 2.31%.

The oil market remains robust: EIA figures show that weekly crude oil inventories in the USA stood at 427.4 million barrels for the week ending January 29, up 5.5 million barrels on the previous week.

The price of Brent crude climbed +0.2% to $79 a barrel.

In French company news, TotalEnergies reported adjusted net income for fiscal year 2023 down 36% to $23.2 billion, or $9.40 per share (-33%), and adjusted EBITDA down 30% to $50 billion.

In addition, TotalEnergies and its partners announced the start-up of production from the Akpo West field on block PML2 (in which the French group is operator with a 24% interest), located 135 kilometers off the coast of Nigeria.

Amundi reports adjusted net income up 3.9% to 1.22 billion euros for the full year 2023, reflecting adjusted net revenues up 2.1% to 3.2 billion for adjusted expenses up at the same rate, to 1.71 billion.

Peugeot recorded 1,124,268 registrations in 2023, up +6% on 2022.
Sales outside the EU29 accounted for 28.2% of worldwide sales, up +0.8 points on 2022. 17 countries broke their 15-year market share records.

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