The CAC 40 crossed the 6000 point mark in December 2019, at the end of an exceptional year (+ 26.4%), its best performance in the last twenty years. Everything is also going well for the other side of the Atlantic, where the Dow Jones continues to break records. The feats that the financial markets owe to multiple factors, starting with the dissipation of the "great fear", this fear of a recession that could have followed the declaration of trade war by President Donald Trump in the spring 2018. In the end, nothing happened: even if it weakened, the economy held up, all the more so since the Sino-American dispute had eased.
Even Europe is resisting well. Brexit does not seem to destabilize European economies too much, and, despite the setbacks in the automotive sector, Germany is stabilizing. From the United States to the euro zone, via emerging countries, the markets can also count on the accommodative monetary policies led by
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