France's main stock market index, the FR40, rose to 8121 points on December 2, 2025, gaining 0.29% from the previous session. Over the past month, the index has climbed 0.13% and is up 11.93% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks this benchmark index from France. France Stock Market Index (FR40) - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on December of 2025.

Prices for France Stock Market Index (FR40) including live quotes, historical charts and news. France Stock Market Index (FR40) was last updated by Trading Economics this December 2 of 2025.

Context

This dataset contains around 41 500 french news from 11/2018 to 03/2021 scraped on a famous financial media website. For ease of use I’v add English translation (Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-fr-en) and sentiment analysis (VADER)

Analysis

The picture below show the effect of covid crisis on news sentiment (Purple) and CAC40 (Blue). We see clearly a link between the news sentiment and the stocks market (Note : March 2020: The covid crisis break down / November 2020: Release of the pfizer vaccine) https://i.ibb.co/nLFdSHL/news-sentiment-vs-cac40.png" alt="">

CAC 40 next day open prediction (Works a little bit ) https://i.ibb.co/ZdhXVHy/CAC40-next-day-open-prediction.png" alt="">

CAC 40 next 20 day prediction (Multi-day prediction gets imprecise results...) https://i.ibb.co/Mgdzvzs/CAC40-next-20-day-prediction.png" alt="">

Compare the sentiment of news title, text and text in the URL. We can conclude that titles are often more dramatic to attract attention. https://i.ibb.co/K7nSkgd/news-sentiment-title-vs-summay-vs-text-in-URL.png" alt="">

-> See linked notebook.

Content

-> FrenchNews.csv This dataset contains around 41 500 french news from 11/2018 to 03/2021 scraped on a famous financial media website.

-> FrenchNewsDayConcat.csv The dataset FrenchNews.csv with post process to sample it at day and compare with CAC40.

The number of news per day varies form day to day (see FrenchNewsDayConcat.csv param NbrNewsJour). The amount of news increase with the time. https://i.ibb.co/xmBVDDR/nbr-of-news-per-day.png" alt="">

Inspiration

Could we use directly the text of the news scraped to make CAC40 prediction (NLP)? Use of the news text to find the main stream subject of news during the time.

Feel free to play with the dataset

Air France-KLM reported EUR2.94B in Market Capitalization this December of 2025, considering the latest stock price and the number of outstanding shares.Data for Air France-KLM | AF - Market Capitalization including historical, tables and charts were last updated by Trading Economics this last December in 2025.

Using all stocks listed on the Japanese equity market and macroeconomic data for Japan, the dataset comprises the following series:

1. Japan_25_Portfolios_MV_PTBV: Monthly returns for 25 size-book-to-market equity portfolios, following the Fama and French (1993) methodology. (Raw data source: Datastream database)
2. Japan_25_Portfolios_MV_PE: Monthly returns for 25 size-PE portfolios, following the Fama and French (1993) methodology. (Raw data source: Datastream database)
3. Japan_50_Portfolios_SECTOR: Monthly returns for 50 industry portfolios. (Raw data source: Datastream database)
4. Japan_3 Factors: Fama and French three-factors (RM, SMB and HML), following the Fama and French (1993) methodology. (Raw data source: Datastream database)
5. Japan_5 Factors: Fama and French five-factors (RM, SMB, HML, RMW, and CMA), following the Fama and French (2015) methodology. (Raw data source: Datastream database)
6. Japan_NUCLEAR_Y: Instrument in years with a value of 1 when a nuclear disaster has occurred somewhere in the world and 0 otherwise. (Raw data source: Bloomberg and BBC News)
7. Japan_NUCLEAR_M: Instrument in months with a value of 1 when a nuclear disaster has occurred somewhere in the world and 0 otherwise. (Raw data source: Bloomberg and BBC News)
8. Japan_RF_M: Three-month interest rate of the Treasury Bill for Japan. (Raw data source: OECD)
9. Company data: Names and general data of the companies that constitute the sample. (Raw data source: Datastream database)
10. Number of stocks in portfolios: Number of stocks included each year in Japan_25_Portfolios_MV_PTBV, Japan_25_Portfolios_MV_PE and Japan_50_Portfolios_SECTOR. (Raw data source: Datastream database)

We have produced all return series using the following data from Datastream: (i) total return index (RI series), (ii) market value (MV series), (iii) market-to-book equity (PTBV series), (iv) total assets (WC02999 series), (v) return on equity (WC08301 series), (vi) price-to-earnings ratio (PE series), and (vii) industry (SECTOR series). We have used the generic rules suggested by Griffin, Kelly, & Nardari (2010) for excluding non-common equity securities from Datastream data. We also exclude stocks with less than twelve observations. Accordingly, our sample comprises a total number of 5,212 stocks.

REFERENCES:

Fama, E. F. and French, K. R. (1993). Common risk factors in the returns on stocks and bonds. Journal of Financial Economics, 33, 3–56. Fama, E. F. and French, K. R. (2015). A five-factor asset pricing model. Journal of Financial Economics, 116, 1–22. Griffin, J. M., Kelly, P., and Nardari, F. (2010). Do market efficiency measures yield correct inferences? A comparison of developed and emerging markets. Review of Financial Studies, 23, 3225–3277.

Electricite De France reported EUR48.01B in Market Capitalization this May of 2023, considering the latest stock price and the number of outstanding shares.Data for Electricite De France | EDF - Market Capitalization including historical, tables and charts were last updated by Trading Economics this last December in 2025.

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