Market Report - Europe
Europe midday: Oil majors' and lenders shares pummeled despite ECB call to action
European stocks were trading on the back foot on Thursday afternoon even after the European Central Bank reiterated that it was open to increasing its emergency bond buying programme and amid conspicuous weakness in the oil patch.
Europe midday: Stocks edge higher as euro area dodges 'cash crunch'
Stocks across the Continent are trading mostly higher come midday boosted by the release of economic data showing that the euro area appeared to have averted the 'cash crunch' that many feared in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Europe midday: Lenders' shares pace advance as infections slow, governments ease lockdowns
Stocks on the Continent were moving higher led by lenders' shares as the number of new Covid-19 infections continued to slow on both sides of the Atlantic, even as the world's health watchdog warned of the epidemic's expansion in the southern hemisphere and Eastern Europe.
Europe midday: Stocks jump as governments move to ease lockdowns
Stocks across the Continent have started the week higher, buoyed by news of falling Covid-19 infections across much of the European Union and moves to ease lockdowns in France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Europe midday: Stocks edge lower amid mixed news flow
Stocks on the Continent were drifting lower at the end of the week, weighed down by what appeared to be bad news for a drug that many had hoped might prove to be more effective against the Covid-19 virus.
Europe midday: Stocks steady ahead of key EU leaders meeting
Shares in Europe were mostly higher on Thursday, with investors looking past a horribly weak reading on the euro area's services sector ahead of a meeting of European Union leaders scheduled for later in the day.
Europe midday: Stocks find their footing but euro area periphery debt under pressure
Stocks on the Continent were exhibiting a modicum of stability on Wednesday, helped by news of further economic relief measures on the other side of the Pond even as investors waited on a meeting of European Union leaders the next day to decide on a package of stimulus measures for the euro area.
Europe midday: Oil patch weakness offsets news Italy to 'significantly' ease lockdown
Stocks on the Continent had fallen further into the red in early afternoon trading as investors tried to fathom what might lie in store next for oil markets after the previous day's rout in prices.
Europe open: Stocks caught in downdraft from oil price collapse
Stocks on the Continent are trading lower, dragged down by the oil patch as markets price-in the reality of several months of exceedingly weak global oil demand.
Europe midday: Stocks move lower as WTI oil futures crater
Early gains for stocks across the Continent have evaporated amid a continued slide in US oil futures and as investors continue to monitor the news-flow around the Covid-19 pandemic.
Europe midday: Stocks snap back amid optimism for Covid-19 treatment Remdesivir
Good news out of a clinical trial for an experimental treatment for the Covid-19 virus in the States helped lift the mood among investors across the Continent and helped to offset a grim set of economic data out of China.
Europe midday: Stocks stage small bounce on hopes for reopening of US economy
Stocks across the Continent are holding onto small gains, helped by reports that the White House may soon outline plans to gradually re-open the American economy.
Europe midday: Stocks dragged lower by downdraft in oil prices
Stocks on the Continent were being dragged lower by another slide in crude oil prices, even as investors braced for what were expected to be a grim set of economic data releases in the States.
Europe midday: Stocks edge higher as infection rates in Italy and Spain slow
Investors across the Continent were continuing to push stocks higher at the start of the week, despite some analysts' doubts regarding the sustainability of recent gains in the stock market.
Europe midday: Stocks higher as markets gauge progress in containing Covid-19
Stocks on the Continent are trading higher at the end of the week but off their best levels, as investors mull progress in containing the Covid-19 pandemic and in some cases reassess the likelihood of a gradual roll-back in social-distancing measures over coming weeks.
Europe midday: Stocks extend gains as Covid-19 infections in Italy continue to retreat
Stocks across the Continent are extending the previous session's rally amid optimism that authorities in Europe and the US are succeeding in getting the Covid-19 pandemic under control.
Europe open: Stocks extend rally on hopes pandemic under control
Stocks across the Continent are extending the previous session's rally amid optimism that authorities in Europe and the US are succeeding in getting the Covid-19 pandemic under control.
Europe midday: Stocks near session highs led by travel and leisure issues
Stock market indices across Europe are trading near their best levels of the session, boosted by news of falling death rates in France, Italy and Spain, together with a big drop in the rate of new infections in the latter.
Europe open: Stocks rally amid fall in Covid-19 fatalities
Stocks on the Continent were rallying at the start of the week, boosted by news of falling death rates in France, Italy and Spain, together with a noticeable drop in the rate of new infections in the latter.
Europe midday: Stocks slip as service sector surveys point to sharp GDP fall
Stocks across the Continent were sent sharply lower at the end of the week by services sector surveys that economists said pointed to an already steep and worse than expected drop in economic activity.