After starting the session with a slight air pocket (briefly dropping towards 7,400 pts), the Paris Bourse reversed the trend and is now up by some 0.2%, around 7,440 pts, at the start of a session which, as the day before, will be driven by a stream of quarterly results, as well as high-profile economic events.

On the other side of the Atlantic, many of the big names in the stock market will be releasing their quarterly results today, including Microsoft, Alphabet, Visa, General Motors, General Electric and Spotify.

In France, Essilor-Luxottica and LVMH are expected to publish their results this evening, after the close of trading.

On the statistics front, the intense economic agenda should also capture investors' attention.

Germany's Ifo business climate index, to be published in the morning, should give some indication of the level of business confidence in Germany and the reality of a recession across the Rhine.

The United States will take over in the afternoon with the publication of the Conference Board's consumer confidence index.

Investors could also be relatively cautious as they await the Federal Reserve's monetary policy decision, expected tomorrow evening.

The Fed's Strategy Committee meeting begins today and will conclude on Wednesday with a press conference by Chairman Jerome Powell.

In French company news, Thales has reached an agreement with Thoma Bravo, a major software investment firm, to acquire 100% of Imperva. Imperva is the US leader in data and application cybersecurity. The acquisition has an enterprise value of $3.6 billion.

TotalEnergies announces the acquisition of the entire share capital of Total Eren, increasing its stake from nearly 30% to 100%. Total Eren's teams will be fully integrated into the oil and gas group's renewables business unit.

Alstom reports sales of nearly 4.2 billion euros for its first quarter 2023-24 (April to June), up 4.3% year-on-year (+7.6% organic), 'in line with the targeted trajectory'.

Société Générale announces the success of the capital increase reserved for its employees and retirees, as part of its 2023 Global Employee Share Ownership Plan (the 30th proposed by the Group), which has just been completed.

Finally, Orpea announces that its accelerated safeguard plan has been approved by the Nanterre Specialized Commercial Court. According to Laurent Guillot, the group's CEO, this decision 'will enable new shareholders to take a stake in a group that will already have a completely different face'.

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