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The Paris Bourse falls even slightly up in early trading Wednesday, after six sessions of consecutive increase, buoyed by better than expected results from Intel in a market trough for a public holiday.

The better than expected start to the season results should stimulate the market this morning, pending the release of retail sales in June in the United States at 14:30.

Around 9:25, the CAC 40 index posted a gain of 0.21% to 3645.29 points, after taking 1.96% yesterday.

Technology stocks are leading the gains, including the semiconductor sector, with a gain of 2.9% from STMicroelectronics, the largest increase in ACC, and 5.2% of Soitec, the largest increase DTH.

Computer services such as Cap Gemini (+2.3%), Steria (+1.7%) and Altran (+1.4%) also benefit from the optimism that followed the results of Intel, and that Alcatel-Lucent, which is 1.6%.

Other major European markets are slightly higher: 0.16% ahead of London and Frankfurt 0.5%. As for the European indices, the EuroStoxx 50 wins 0.3% and 0.23% Eurofirst 300.

The euro is maintained around 1.27 dollars while U.S. light crude was steady at 77.13 dollars a barrel.

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