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Mainland European markets are playing catch up on the FTSE 100 this morning, following yesterday’s session that saw a welcome slump in UK CPI. Instead, today looks to be dominated by the ECB’s interest rate decision, with markets viewing a 25-basis point cut as largely a foregone conclusion. This morning has seen eurozone inflation revised […]

An indecisive start for European equity markets has seen the region struggle for a definitive direction despite another upbeat session in Asia overnight. The recent decline seen for Spanish, French, and German inflation figures provided the basis for today’s eurozone CPI metric, with the 1.8% figure representing the first sub 2% reading since mid-2021. Markets […]

European markets are on the rise in a session that will struggle to replicate the kind of fireworks that saw yet another bout of gains throughout Asian markets. The week has been dominated by talk of Chinese stimulus, as the PBoC and Chinese government finally appear to have stepped up with a raft of measures […]

The FTSE 100 leads the way in early trade today, with a broad-based rally seeing gains across the likes of the banks, miners, oil majors, and domestically focused retailers. Elsewhere in Europe, the German economic outlook remains in the doldrums according to the latest ZEW survey, with sentiment falling to a 11-month low of 3.6 […]

Mainland European markets are leading the way higher in early trade, with the FTSE 100 providing the one outlier. However, much of the weakness seen in the FTSE 100 can be attributed to the declines seen in pharma giant AstraZeneca, with the second largest component of the FTSE trading 2.5% lower. Elsewhere in mainland Europe, […]

European equities are following their US counterparts higher following a session that saw a belated surge in tech stocks following an initial post CPI downturn. While traders have been weighing up the possibility of a 50-basis point rate cut next week, that appears to have largely gone out the window after a core CPI metric […]