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Market Report - Europe Close
31 Aug
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Europe close: Inflation worries, hawkish central banks drag stocks lower

Stocks across the Continent ended the month of August on a down note following a wobble on Wall Street after the release of a weaker-than-expected report on the state of the jobs market in the US.

30 Aug
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Europe close: Stocks surrender early gains

Most of the main European stock market gauges ended lower on Tuesday, under pressure following the release of better-than-expected US job opening and consumer confidence data which appeared to revive concerns over the near-term inflation picture in the US.

26 Aug
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Europe close: Stocks fall after hawkish Fed chief's speech

European markets fell into the red at the end of the week after US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell's sounded a hawkish note in his speech at the Jackson Hole economic symposium.

25 Aug
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Europe close: Stocks end on mixed note ahead of Powell speech

European shares finished on a mixed note on Thursday as investors awaited a potentially key speech from US Federal Reserve President, Jerome Powell, scheduled for the next day.

23 Aug
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Europe close: Gas price spike hits stocks

European shares finished sharply lower on Monday amid a spike in natural gas prices even as investors were already questioning just how quickly inflation would fall back in 2023.

19 Aug
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Europe close: Stocks slip amid record German producer prices and natural gas quotes

European equity markets extended their losses on Friday, with investors assessing the inflation picture on both sides of the Channel following a record rise in German producer prices.

18 Aug
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Europe close: Stocks edge up, buoyed by US data

European shares were higher for the most part on Thursday, following a sharp sell-off in the previous session, helped by a fresh batch of better-than-expected data out in the States covering factory activity, jobs and to a lesser extent home sales.

17 Aug
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Europe close: Stocks slip amid profit-taking, inflation concerns

Shares on the Continent fell back with traders in the City citing profit-taking and a worse-than-expected reading for UK inflation in July for the move.

16 Aug
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Europe close: Stocks edge higher despite soft economic data

Europe's main stock market indices pushed higher again on Tuesday on the coattails of a fresh advance on Wall Street, although risk appetite was tempered by mixed economic data in the States and soft survey readings in Euroland.

15 Aug
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Europe close: Shares edge higher despite soft Chinese data

European shares edged higher at the start of the week despite the hit to investor sentiment from weaker-than-expected readings for Chinese fixed asset investment and retail sales that prompted a surprise interest rate cut by the country's central bank.

12 Aug
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Europe close: Stocks end week on a slightly higher note

European shares were slightly higher on Friday as strong eurozone industrial production survey data was tempered by forecasts of a weaker second half of the year.

11 Aug
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Europe close: Stocks little changed despite better-than-expected US price data

European shares finished on a mixed note on Thursday despite the release of better-than-expected producer price data for July on the other side of the Pond.

10 Aug
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Europe close: Stocks add to gains after better-than-expected US CPI reading

European shares were again higher following downside surprises for US consumer price data that appeared to take off some of the pressure on the US central bank.

09 Aug
Europe close: Shares slip ahead of US CPI data

European shares were lower on Tuesday as investors took some money off the table ahead of key US consumer price inflation data due out the next day.

08 Aug
Europe close: Stocks up in quiet start to the week

European shares began the week on the front foot on a relatively quiet day for economic reports and company earnings.

05 Aug
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Europe close: Stocks slip after data shows US jobs market still running hot

European shares were mostly in the red on Friday as investors digested a far stronger-than-expected US payrolls report.

05 Aug
Europe close: Stocks extend rally

European stocks made gains on Thursday despite the biggest rise in UK interest rates since 1995, and growing tensions between the US and China.

03 Aug
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Europe close: Stocks shake off geopolitical angst to end higher

European shares continued to push higher on Wednesday as investors as concerns about the impact of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan ebbed.

03 Aug
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Europe close: Geopolitical tensions hold shares back

European shares were down as fears of an economic slowdown and rising geopolitical tensions between the US and China dampened sentiment.

01 Aug
Europe close: Stocks mostly higher despite weak manufacturing PMIs

European stocks were mostly higher at the start of August, even as investors digested weak manufacturing data for the eurozone and China.