The Paris stock market opened the week slightly higher, climbing 0.2% to around 7355 points, in a market deserted by investors during the summer months. Moreover, there are no statistical releases on the agenda.

As a result, trading volumes are likely to remain limited on the eve of the Assumption Day bank 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 on the markets, which tend to stick to the trends of previous weeks.

This year, the 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.

This dynamic seems to be partly the consequence of rigorist comments by Fed members following the latest inflation figures, which have led to a rise in US government bond yields", explain analysts at Capital Economics.

Despite the summer period, several 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.

In French company news, Canal+ Group, Vivendi's television subsidiary, announces the arrival in France of the DAZN sports service in its sports packages as of 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 its target date for completing regulatory review of the marketing authorization application for VLA1553, its chikungunya vaccine candidate, from the end of August to the end of November.

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 its intention 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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