India, April 24 -- French stocks are exhibiting weakness on Thursday amid renewed concerns about U.S. tariffs on imports from China. Investors are also digesting a slew of earnings updates and French consumer sentiment data.
The benchmark CAC 40 was down 31.90 points or 0.43% at 7,450.46 a few minutes ago, recovering from a low of 7,411.03.
Dassault Systemes is down nearly 7%. Kering is lower by about 5.3%, while Thales is down 4%.
BNP Paribas is declining 3.7% are reporting mixed quarterly results. The bank reported pre-tax income of 4.240 billion euros for the first quarter, 2.8% lower than 4.363 billion euros in the same quarter a year ago.
Operating income was 3.922 billion euros, 0.3% up from 3.901 billion euros last year, while no...