Ooh la la! London stocks snap at Paris' heels
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OOH LA LA! LONDON STOCKS SNAP AT PARIS' HEELS
London is coming closer to knocking Paris off the top spot in terms of size of European stock markets, as the sell-off in French stocks has brought the gap between the two to its narrowest in 18 months.
Political turmoil in the EU's second-largest economy in the last week has shaken investor confidence, wiping billions off the value of domestic stocks and bonds, and pushing the premium investors demand to hold French debt rather than benchmark German debt up by the most in a week since at least 2010, according to LSEG data DE10FR10=RR.
The CAC All-Share index .PAX, which overtook London in terms of market capitalisation, in around October 2022, in the wake of the so-called mini-budget crisis, is currently worth around $3.24 trillion.
But it has lost more than 7% in value in the last week alone, leaving the premium over London's FTSE All-Share index .FTAS at just $202 billion, the smallest since January 2023, according to LSEG Datastream.
Paris is home to some of Europe's most valuable companies, such as luxury and beauty groups LVMH LVMH.PA, L'Oreal OREP.PA and Hermes HRMS.PA. The largest, LVMH, commands a market cap of nearly $400 billion, compared with $245 billion for London's largest listed company, AstraZeneca AZN.L.
(Amanda Cooper)
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