The CAC 40 climbed 0.7% to close at 7,924 on Friday, its fourth straight gain, lifting the Paris exchange to a weekly advance of 2.2% and its highest level in nearly three months. Optimism persisted ahead of the highly anticipated meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska, the first face-to-face talks between the two leaders since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, fueling hopes for progress toward ending the conflict. Teleperformance led gains with a 4% rise, while TotalEnergies, Essilor, Sanofi, and Pernod Ricard each added 1.7%. Thales and Publicis lagged, falling 0.9% and 1%, respectively.