Clearly in the red since the opening, and after dropping as much as 1.3% below 7100 points, the Paris Bourse erased part of its losses in the final minutes of trading to end the session on a more limited decline of 0.38%, to 7164 points.

Over the past week, the Paris index has nevertheless lost 2.8%, against a backdrop of questions about the Fed's monetary policy, which are encouraging bond yields to rise, and growing fears about the health of the Chinese economy.

The latest setback is that Chinese property giant Evergrande, which is in poor financial health, reportedly filed for bankruptcy in the United States yesterday.

Meanwhile, the correction in long-term yields continues in the wake of the Fed's "minutes", which highlighted the central bank's concerns about persistent inflation.

Against this backdrop, 10-year government bond yields are easing very slightly, but remain at very high levels: 4.23% for US Treasuries, 2.61% for the German bund and 3.16% for the French OAT.

Investors should take cautious positions ahead of next week's meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole.

In French stock news, Valeo announced the signature of an agreement to sell all the production assets of its Russian transmission systems business to NPK Avtopribor, as part of its decision to withdraw from production activities in that country.

On Friday, Spie announced that it had acquired 75.1% of BridgingIT in order to accelerate its development in digital transformation services in Germany.

Finally, Visiomed Groupe announced the suspension of its listing following a press release issued by its subsidiary BewellConnect, which Visiomed considers to be 'misleading and defamatory'. We are suspending our listing to enable us to communicate rapidly", explains Visiomed Group, which denies "all the defamatory allegations made in the BewellConnect press release".

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