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Markets · Nov 4, 2026 · 4 min read
First published at 14:06 GMT; updated with the session's closing edition at 17:38 GMT. Madrid's IBEX 35 jumped 3.00% to lead all nine European indices we track higher on Wednesday, the day after Democrats won…
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Corporate News · Nov 4, 2026 · 7 min read
TotalEnergies has signed a Heads of Agreement to supply Jiangsu Guoxin Group, a provincial state-owned energy company in China, with 900,000 tonnes…
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Corporate News · Nov 4, 2026 · 8 min read
Fitch Ratings revised BNP Paribas' outlook to Negative from Stable on Tuesday and affirmed its AA- rating, carrying its 30 October move…
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Markets · Nov 3, 2026 · 5 min read
Every European benchmark we track closed lower on Tuesday, London's 1.14% fall the steepest, as the technology selloff crossed from Asia. In…
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Markets · Nov 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Madrid led a mostly higher European close on Monday, the IBEX 35 up 1.63% after three sessions of declines, while crude's slide…
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Macro · Oct 31, 2026 · 6 min read
Fitch Ratings revised France's outlook to Negative from Stable on 30 October and affirmed its A+ rating, citing weaker growth, higher borrowing…
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Markets · Oct 30, 2026 · 4 min read
Europe's four-session rise ended on Friday: the Stoxx Europe 600 fell 0.41% as technology followed Wall Street's earnings night lower, while Eurostat's…
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Macro · Oct 30, 2026 · 5 min read
The euro area economy grew 0.4% in the third quarter, slower than the 0.6% of the second, as Spain led the four…
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Markets · Oct 29, 2026 · 4 min read
Europe rallied on Thursday after the European Central Bank held its rate and Christine Lagarde set her exit date, with Frankfurt's 1.31%…
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Corporate News · Oct 29, 2026 · 9 min read
Two European oil majors reported third-quarter results on 29 October: Shell's adjusted earnings almost doubled from a year earlier to $10.8 billion,…
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Corporate News · Oct 29, 2026 · 6 min read
Among European banks reporting on 29 October, Societe Generale lifted third-quarter group net income 24.1% to €1.89 billion, which the French bank…
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Markets · Oct 28, 2026 · 4 min read
Frankfurt rose 0.44% to lead a split European board on Wednesday, while a Brazil-driven slide in Santander pulled Madrid 1.45% lower and…
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Corporate News · Oct 28, 2026 · 7 min read
BNP Paribas lifted third-quarter net income 13.5% to €3.46 billion on Wednesday, and UBS, Santander, Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered also reported…
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Markets · Oct 27, 2026 · 5 min read
Milan's FTSE MIB rose 0.90 percent to 49,627.95 on Tuesday, a third straight gain at the top of a European board that…
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Markets · Oct 26, 2026 · 5 min read
The nine European indices we track all closed higher on Monday. Milan's FTSE MIB rose 1.29 percent to lead the session, Frankfurt's…
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Macro · Oct 24, 2026 · 5 min read
France's Ministry of the Economy and Finance said on 23 October that Moody's had kept the country's sovereign rating at Aa3 with…
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Markets · Oct 23, 2026 · 6 min read
The oil and gas group rose 2.99 percent on Friday, the only gainer among the eight Stoxx supersectors we track, on a…
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Corporate News · Oct 23, 2026 · 6 min read
L'Oréal's sales reached 35.33 billion euros in the nine months to 30 September 2026, up 6.9 percent like-for-like and 7.7 percent as…
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Corporate News · Oct 23, 2026 · 8 min read
Hermès lifted third-quarter sales 5.5 percent as reported, to 4,096 million euros. Kering's revenue was stable as reported at 3,345 million euros,…
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Markets · Oct 22, 2026 · 5 min read
Milan's FTSE MIB fell 2.54 percent on Thursday, the deepest decline on a day when all nine European indices we track closed…
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Macro · Oct 22, 2026 · 6 min read
Euro area government debt rose to 87.7 percent of GDP at the end of 2025, up from 86.6 percent a year earlier.…
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Energy & Commodities · Oct 22, 2026 · 6 min read
France has secured the equivalent of 2 terawatt-hours (TWh) a month of liquefied natural gas from Qatar for the winter, President Emmanuel…
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Markets · Oct 21, 2026 · 5 min read
Europe's nine indices all rose on Wednesday as technology shares rebounded from the chip selloff. The Euro STOXX 50 gained 1.40 percent…
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Macro · Oct 20, 2026 · 6 min read
His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and French President Emmanuel Macron witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding on…
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Markets · Oct 20, 2026 · 6 min read
Seven of Europe's nine indices slipped on Tuesday as the selloff in the chip names crossed from Asia, while Zurich and Madrid…
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Macro · Oct 19, 2026 · 6 min read
Kuwait and France signed agreements on Monday covering direct investment, civil aviation, data and artificial intelligence, academic cooperation, cancer care and space…
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Markets · Oct 19, 2026 · 5 min read
All nine of Europe's indices fell on Monday as street protests deepened the worry over France's budget deficit. Milan's FTSE MIB dropped…
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Markets · Oct 16, 2026 · 6 min read
All nine of Europe's indices rose on Friday, the DAX leading at 0.95 percent, as earnings strength capped the Stoxx Europe 600's…
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Macro · Oct 16, 2026 · 4 min read
France recorded 119,307 business births in September on seasonally and working-day adjusted figures, the highest monthly total since INSEE began measuring them…
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Markets · Oct 15, 2026 · 6 min read
Five of Europe's nine indices rose on Thursday as health care led the sectors for a second day and Zurich's SMI ran…
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Macro · Oct 15, 2026 · 4 min read
France's consumer price inflation rose to 3.1 percent in September from 2.4 percent in August, the National Institute of Statistics and Economic…
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Markets · Oct 14, 2026 · 5 min read
Eight of Europe's nine indices rose on Wednesday, led by Zurich's SMI at 1.45 percent in a fourth straight gain, and Milan's…
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Markets · Oct 13, 2026 · 6 min read
Seven of the nine European indices closed lower on Tuesday as the morning's gains faded, with London giving back a three-week high…
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Markets · Oct 12, 2026 · 6 min read
All nine European indices closed higher on Monday, led by Madrid, where the IBEX 35 rose 1.33 percent, in a second straight…
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Markets · Oct 9, 2026 · 6 min read
All nine European indices we track closed higher on Friday as oil eased from Thursday's spike and the week's bond selloff paused.…
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Markets · Oct 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Eight of the nine European indices we track closed lower on Thursday as a fresh bond selloff and oil prices above 100…
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Markets · Oct 7, 2026 · 5 min read
Eight of the nine European indices we track closed lower on Wednesday, led by Milan's 2.51 percent drop, as a global bond…
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First published at 14:06 GMT; updated with the session’s closing edition at 17:38 GMT. Madrid’s IBEX 35 jumped 3.00% to lead all nine European indices we track higher on Wednesday, the day after Democrats won control of the US Congress. The Guardian reported that European shares powered ahead as markets reacted to the Democrats’ victory,…
TotalEnergies has signed a Heads of Agreement to supply Jiangsu Guoxin Group, a provincial state-owned energy company in China, with 900,000 tonnes of LNG a year for 15 years. For TotalEnergies’ shareholders and for China’s gas market, the buyer counts for more than the size. The volume equals 2% of the company’s global LNG portfolio…
Fitch Ratings revised BNP Paribas’ outlook to Negative from Stable on Tuesday and affirmed its AA- rating, carrying its 30 October move on France through to the bank’s operating environment. For the bank’s creditors the ratings hold today, but their direction now hangs on France: a sovereign downgrade to A would likely take BNP Paribas…
Every European benchmark we track closed lower on Tuesday, London’s 1.14% fall the steepest, as the technology selloff crossed from Asia. In The Edge’s reading, this was risk coming off rather than conviction selling: losses were shallowest where the AI trade weighs least, with Milan barely moved, and deepest in London, where crude above $100…
Madrid led a mostly higher European close on Monday, the IBEX 35 up 1.63% after three sessions of declines, while crude’s slide sank energy shares 2.26%. In The Edge’s reading the oil move sorted Europe’s session: consumer and rate-sensitive names rose while the energy sector fell hardest of the tracked set, and basic resources led…
Fitch Ratings revised France’s outlook to Negative from Stable on 30 October and affirmed its A+ rating, citing weaker growth, higher borrowing costs and a wider deficit. For holders of French government bonds, the agency has now named a failure to improve the debt trajectory materially as a trigger for a downgrade. In The Edge’s…
Europe’s four-session rise ended on Friday: the Stoxx Europe 600 fell 0.41% as technology followed Wall Street’s earnings night lower, while Eurostat’s flash showed growth slowing to 0.4%. In The Edge’s reading, the session repriced the global AI spending doubt rather than the euro area’s own data: the technology and bank sectors fell while health…
The euro area economy grew 0.4% in the third quarter, slower than the 0.6% of the second, as Spain led the four largest members and French output slipped. For businesses and policymakers in the currency bloc, the headline beat expectations while the largest economies lost speed: the quarterly rate was 0.2 points above the 0.2%…
Europe rallied on Thursday after the European Central Bank held its rate and Christine Lagarde set her exit date, with Frankfurt’s 1.31% rise the day’s best and only Madrid lower. The pause followed increases at two of the bank’s previous three meetings, and in The Edge’s reading the one falling sector tells the story: the…
Two European oil majors reported third-quarter results on 29 October: Shell’s adjusted earnings almost doubled from a year earlier to $10.8 billion, and TotalEnergies posted $9.1 billion of adjusted net income. For shareholders of the two oil majors, refining was the quarter’s common thread in The Edge’s reading, doing more than crude to lift both…