Europe: Trade war hopes lift shares to early December highs
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[LONDON] European shares opened higher on Friday and reached their highest level since early December as new-found hope about the Sino-US trade negotiations lifted stock markets from Wall Street to Asia.
The pan-European STOXX 600 benchmark index rose 0.9 per cent by 0827 GMT with all main sectors and bourses firmly in positive territory.
Trade-exposed sensitive indexes or stocks gained the most with the automotive sector leading the pack up 1.3 per cent or Germany's exporters-heavy DAX up 0.7 per cent.
Among top movers, Telecom Italia dropped about 9 per cent after it said it expected to report full-year organic core earnings of around 8.1 billion euros (S$12.5 billion), a drop of under 5 per cent compared to the year before.
Another profit warning by Ryanair also spooked investors and the low cost airline's shares dropped 4.2 per cent and dragged rival easyJet fell 2 per cent.
Other high-profile corporate results included French supermarket retailer Casino whose shares rose 2.7 per cent as traders and analysts said the company's fourth quarter sales had shown an element of resilience to the impact from anti-government protests in France.
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