Market Report - Europe Close
Europe close: Investors fade early bounce as UK postpones easing lockdown
Selling in European stocks extended into a second session at the end of the month, after Downing Street postponed easing lockdown restrictions for two weeks and following the release of data showing a record contraction in euro area economic growth during the second quarter.
Europe close: Stocks crater as dire GDP data sinks lenders' shares
Stocks across Europe reeled as investors digested data showing that German gross domestic product fell at its quickest pace on record since at least 1970 during the second quarter of 2020.
Europe close: Investors sit on their hands ahead of Fed, US tech earnings
Stocks across the Continent were little changed on Wednesday as investors waited on the US central bank's policy announcement scheduled for later in the session and a raft of corporate earnings Stateside over the coming days, including from tech giants Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook and Microsoft.
Europe close: Stocks little changed as investors monitor risks of second pandemic wave
Stocks in Europe were little changed overall on Tuesday although they did give back early gains despite reports that US lawmakers were preparing a further $1. 0trn round of fiscal stimulus.
Europe close: Coronavirus worries weigh on stocks
Stocks in Europe traded slightly lower on Monday, weighed down by concerns around a possible second wave of Covid-19 infections, particularly in Spain, and ongoing tensions between China and the US.
Europe close: Stocks finish sharply lower, tech paces losses
Stocks in Europe finished sharply lower on Friday, dragged down by US-China tensions and worries about the toll that recent Covid-19 outbreaks will take on economies as they try to reopen.
Europe closes: Stocks little changed amid geopolitical tensions
Stocks in Europe finished mostly lower on Thursday although losses were marginal.
Europe close: Stocks end lower amid geopolitical tensions
Stock markets across the region slumped as tensions between China and the US flared up again and as the euro added to its recent breakout.
Europe close: Jump in euro dents stocks, travel issues erase losses
Stocks across the Continent finished off their best levels of the session with benchmark equity gauges in France and Spain still unable to retake their June highs, in part as gains for the euro weighed on equities.
Europe close: Stocks, euro and Italian debt all move higher
Late gains in the technology space pushed stock market gauges higher across the Continent with Italian shares breaking above their June highs alongside gains for German issues.
Europe close: Stocks modestly higher ahead of EU leaders' summit
Stocks across the Continent were for the most part higher on Friday as investors monitored the headlines coming out of a three-day European Union leaders' summit in Brussels.
Europe close: Stocks dip after weak Chinese consumption figures
Stocks across the Continent finished slightly lower but off their session lows after the European Central Bank signalled that monetary stimulus was still needed given the downside risks to the economy.
Europe close: Travel and leisure shares rally on positive vaccine updates
Stocks in Europe continued to grind higher and towards, nearing key levels of technical resistance after a report that positive news from Oxford University's Covid-19 vaccine trial was imminent.
Europe close: Travel and technology issues pace losses
Travel and leisure, and technology issues weighed on Europe's main stockmarket gauges, although a positive start to the US second-quarter corporate reporting season helped to stem losses.
Europe close: Stocks, euro near one-month highs ahead of results season
Stocks in Europe finished the session at their best level in over a month ahead of the start of the second quarter earnings season, even as the single currency continued to bound higher.
Europe close: Bank and Technology stocks pace gains
Gains for lenders' shares and among Technology stocks saw Europe's main stockmarket gauges finish the week on an up note, with the latter extending their breakout to multi-year highs.
Europe close: Stocks drop sharply despite modest improvement in US jobs market
Stocks in Europe ended the session sharply lower despite the release of data showing further modest improvement in the US jobs market over the preceding week.
Europe close: Stocks drop amid concerns around the economic outlook
Stocks in Europe failed to track gains across the Atlantic and finished lower.
Europe close: Stocks pare losses despite downbeat growth forecasts
Stocks in Europe managed to pare their losses towards the end of trading despite the European Commission downgrading its growth forecasts and the still worrisome headlines around the coronavirus pandemic out of the US.
Europe close: Banks pace gains as stocks move back towards five-month highs
Shares in Europe moved back towards roughly five-month highs, boosted by an overnight surge in Chinese stocks and another big positive economic surprise in the States.