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Already cooled by the poor performance of U.S. markets and Asian, European markets were moving down sharply on Tuesday. But the coup de bamboo fell to 16 hours, when the number of highly-anticipated sales of existing homes in the United States has been published.
They fell in July from 27.2% to 3.83 million annualized units, their lowest level in more than 15 years. The fall is twice stronger than expected. A nasty surprise while growing doubts about the strength of the U.S. recovery, and while the labor market overseas and yet still shows signs of weakness.
Emblematic of Wall Street widened its losses and European stock markets suffer the consequences. The Dax drops 2.19% to 5879 points, the London FTSE coward 2.24% to 5117 points.In Spain, the Ibex lost 2.57%, the Belgian BEL 20, 1.63% and the FTSE Eb Italian, 1.68%.
In addition, industrial orders in the eurozone rose slightly more than expected in June, according to statistics released Tuesday by Eurostat. The control inputs in the sector rose 2.5% from May and 22.6% compared to June 2009. Economists and analysts on average expected for June increased 1.5% from May and up 22.9% over one year.
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Accor announced Monday the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding regarding the sale of walls 48 of its hotels in Europe for $ 367 million, Predica, insurance subsidiary of Credit Agricole (-2.03% 9.95 euros) and the Land Walls, a subsidiary of Land regions (-0.68% to 71.50 euros).Titles leapt 1.54% to 23.72 euros this morning and remained alone in the green mid-session, up 0.21% to 23.410 euros.
Danone (-0.37% to 41.34 euros) Immédia acquired the company, number three French juice mixed with fruit (smoothies), whose turnover is around four million euros, reports the Tribune.
The Ministry of Sustainable Development and Bercy warned on Monday evening Regulatory Commission of Energy (CRE) and the Higher Council of the energy of their intention to decline by 12% the purchase price by EDF (-0 , 02% to 31.795 euros) of photovoltaic electricity.
The bank Societe Generale (-1.88%) and BNP Paribas (-1.80%) are among the largest declines.
Lafarge unscrews 3.08% to 36.95 euros.Bank of America-Merrill Lynch downgraded its opinion on the title of "neutral" to "underperform" and lowered its target price of 53-42 euros.
The euro was down 0.32% against the greenback at 1.2618 dollar. The European currency reached its lowest level since 8 years against the yen. The dollar is worse than 15-year low against the yen.