Credit Agricole and EADS May Move: French Equity Preview

By Heather Smith

July 15 (Bloomberg) -- The following is a list of companies whose shares may have unusual price changes in Paris. Stock symbols are in parentheses after company names. Share prices are from the last close.

France's CAC 40 Index added 41.89, or 1 percent, to close at 4142.53 in Paris, after dropping 3.9 percent last week. The SBF 120 Index climbed 1 percent to 2992.31.

Credit Agricole SA (ACA FP): The board of France's second largest bank will meet tomorrow to discuss whether to remove Georges Pauget from the chief executive officer post, which he has held since September 2005, four people with knowledge of the meeting said. The shares rose 29 cents, or 2.5 percent, to 11.86 euros.

European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co. (EAD FP): EADS's Airbus SAS, the world's biggest planemaker, won an order for 55 airlines from Gulf carrier Etihad Airways worth about $11 billion at list prices, the Toulouse, France-based unit said today at the Farnborough International Air Show outside London. Shares rose 66 cents, or 6.2 percent, to 11.40 euros.

To contact the reporter on this story: Heather Smith in Paris at hsmith26@bloomberg.net