Wall Street awaited hesitant

Wall Street should open very cautious on Monday, before the employment figures expected later in the week. The index futures Standard & Poor's 500 and Nasdaq 100 advanced 0.08% respectively at 1064.50 points and 1791.75 points to 0.14%.The Dow should open almost at equilibrium.

Friday, already, the New York Stock Exchange had closed up, apparently reassured by the downward revision in less severe than expected U.S. growth in the second quarter U.S. GDP in fact increased by 1.6% in the second quarter against 1.4% expected recently, but against 2.4% expected in the first estimate.

Despite a speech by Ben Bernanke at Jackson Hole somewhat mixed, the U.S. stock market saw on Friday, the Dow Jones climbing 1.6% to 10,150 points and the Nasdaq 1.6% to clinch also 2153 points.

Expenditure and household income to menu

The macroeconomic agenda this week on horseback in August and September will be followed by particular investors. From this Monday, are expected before the opening of trading, will be announced at 14:30, expenditure and household income for the month of August.On Tuesday, it will house prices and economic activity in the Chicago area in August and, finally, the consumer confidence that will be published. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will be dominated by such employment with, successively, the ADP employment figures, entries weekly, and finally unemployment figures and the August employment savings account payday advance.

On the corporate side, the spectacle of mergers acquisitions poursuit.3Par soared 25% to 32.5 million.As for her suitors, HP has increased its prices by 3 to 27-30 dollars, Dell has aligned its offer Friday morning on $ 27.

The German manufacturer Infineon Semiconductor announced Monday the sale of his division's wireless, which makes components for mobile phones, to Intel for U.S. $ 1.4 billion (nearly 1.1 billion euros).

The CEO of Sanofi-Aventis, which formalized Sunday his intention to acquire U.S. biotech Genzyme to $ 18.5 billion, said that "some time may elapse" by launching a offer, in an interview with Voices dated Monday.Sanofi-Aventis announced on Sunday a proposal for acquisition of U.S. biotech group Genzyme for a price of 69 dollars per share, totaling $ 18.5 billion (14.5 billion euros).

The Indian government was to meet Monday officials from the Canadian manufacturer of BlackBerry (RIM) to try to break the deadlock over access to encrypted data from the phone, on the eve of the ultimatum on the blocking of two services mail.

French insurer Axa has reduced by almost half its share in the prestigious U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs, the center of criticism for his role in the Greek crisis, according to documents from the regulatory authority of the U.S. markets (SEC) .

• Wall Street ends without direction
• Wall Street retreats sharply
• The CAC 40 is a break but remains beyond 4000 points
• Wall Street enjoys lower unemployment
• The Cac 40 pauses