French stocks were modestly higher a little past noon on Tuesday, led by gains in banking and select technology and defense stocks.
Trading was a bit lackluster as traders largely staying on the sidelines, and those engaged in business mostly refraining from making big moves.
The French market will have a full session today. On Wednesday, it will close early and remain shut on Thursday for New Year's Day.
The benchmark CAC 40 was up 21.30 points or 0.27% at 8,133.32 about half an hour past noon.
Societe Generale climbed nearly 1.5%. BNP Paribas moved up 0.8% and Credit Agricle gained 0.9%.
STMicroElectronics, TotalEnergies, Accor, Dassault Systemes, Airbus, Sanofi, ArcelorMittal, Orange and Hermes International gained 0.3 to 0.7%.
EssilorLuxottica, Capgemini, Bureau Veritas, Schneider Electric, Air Liquide and Carrefour were modeslty lower a little while ago.
Meanwhile, the yield on France's 10-year Government Bonds rose to 3.545% today.
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