The Paris stock market is not letting up, quite the contrary, with the CAC40 adding +0.4% and testing 7,050pts: it has gained +9% since January 1, and is now just 100pts short of erasing all the losses of 2022.
For the CAC40 'GR', which is flirting with 20,700, it's already been almost a week since the losses of 2022 were 'made up', and the absolute record is now just 1.5% away from the current level.

European stock markets posted moderate gains on Monday (+0.2% for the E-Stoxx50, following in the footsteps of the DAX with +0.4% to 15,150, i.e. +28% since September 30) in anecdotal volumes (1 billion euros traded in Paris), while Wall Street was off today on Martin Luther King's Day.
No macroeconomic data were scheduled for Monday, but the following days will see the release of Germany's ZEW index, inflation in the Eurozone and the UK, and US industrial production and retail sales (for December), which will provide further insight into the strength of consumer spending over the holiday period.
Industrial producer prices, housing starts and old home sales figures will also be released in the coming days.
Traders will also be keeping a close eye on the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, which will be attended by several central bankers, but not by its founder Klaus Schwab, for health reasons.

Among the most eagerly-awaited speakers will be IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, ECB President Christine Lagarde and no less than nine members of the Fed Board (representing almost 3/4 of the Fed's workforce, a strong message to the world's financiers).
Above all, the week will see the pace of earnings releases from major US groups pick up, with results from banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, for example, and consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble.

The first results of the US banking groups, published on Friday, were not particularly convincing, as the substantial provisions set aside for the fourth quarter showed that they were preparing for a difficult 2023.

Among the other big names expected this week, Alcoa, Netflix and Procter & Gamble will unveil their accounts by the end of the week. In Europe, Ericsson will present its quarterly results on Friday.

Profit-taking session on the bond front, with our OATs at 2.65% up +3pts and Bunds at 2.1950% up +5%.
No US T-Bonds trading this Monday.
The euro is falling back to $1.0820, which means nothing.

In company news, TotalEnergies announces that it has approved the final investment decision for the development of Lapa South-West, a project in which it is operator with a 45% interest, in partnership with Shell (30%) and Repsol Sinopec (25%).

Biosynex announces the extension of its partnership with Singapore-based Credo Diagnostics Biomedical, by signing an exclusive agreement for the distribution of VitaPCR systems for an extended territory including the UK.

Finally, SES announced on Monday that it had successfully completed a 5G link in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) using its Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite communications system.

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