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CAC 40 edged up 0.3%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-07-31 · market close

CAC 40 closed at 8,509.64 on 2026-07-31, edged up 0.3% on the session and is +4.4% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

Paris ended the session in the green, the CAC 40 finishing at 8552.01 for a gain of 0.78%. It was a steady rather than dramatic advance for the French benchmark, which tracks the largest listed companies on Euronext Paris.

The close left the index close to its own recent ceiling, sitting 0.8% below its 52-week high of 8620.93 and 12.01% above the 52-week low of 7635.03. It traded above its 50-day average of 8341.4 and its 200-day average of 8188.14, meaning the current level sits above where the index has averaged over recent months. Over the past week the index added 2.15%, over the past month 0.91%, and over three months 6.07%, leaving it up 4.94% so far in 2026.

Peer markets moved the same way but at very different speeds. In Europe, Paris led the big bourses ahead of the Euro Stoxx 50 at 0.63%, the DAX at 0.28% and the FTSE 100 at 0.22%. Wall Street was stronger still: the Nasdaq up 2.78%, the S&P 500 up 1.66%, the Dow up 1.19%. Asia varied widely, with the Nikkei up 4.03%, Shanghai 0.72%, the Hang Seng and ASX 200 each 0.1%, the Sensex 0.21% and the Nifty 50 0.27%. The biggest gains in the peer set came from Seoul and Taipei — the KOSPI up 17.91% and the TAIEX up 7.98% — an exceptional regional bounce next to Europe's modest move.

News flow around the index was thin and mostly descriptive of the previous session. Investing.com carried a headline reporting French stocks higher at the close of trade, and Armenpress ran a European stocks summary dated 30 July. According to a headline from marketscreener.com, Schneider and Bouygues set the pace as the CAC regained momentum, while BBN Times attributed a broad rebound to Schneider Electric and chip names amid negotiations involving Iran. None of that is confirmed here, and both pieces described trading before the latest close.

Other headlines in the feed were plainly out of date and are not drivers of this session: a TradingView piece on 2025 gainers and laggards is more than seven months old, a livemint report on tariff-related European losses roughly six months old, and a Luxus Plus item about a record high on corporate earnings about five and a half months old.

What the data establishes is modest. The CAC 40 rose, closed near the top of its 52-week range and stayed above its main trend averages while equity markets rose broadly on their latest closes. What it does not establish is why: no economic release, policy decision or single-stock event in this pack accounts for the 0.78% move, and the honest reading is that Paris took part in a widely positive global session rather than responding to a specific French catalyst.

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How this article was made: Strota assembled the market data above (the index's price history, same-session peer-market moves and public headlines) and an AI model wrote the narrative strictly from that evidence — it is not permitted to add outside facts or numbers. Every figure comes from the underlying market/public data.