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Markets · Oct 6, 2026 · 5 min read
All nine European markets closed higher on Tuesday, giving the Stoxx Europe 600 a third straight gain at 636.63, up 0.48 percent…
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Markets · Oct 5, 2026 · 5 min read
Madrid's IBEX 35 jumped 1.12 percent on Monday to 19,299.70 and eight of the nine European boards we track closed higher, with…
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Markets · Oct 2, 2026 · 6 min read
Europe turned the week's pattern over in one session. All nine boards we track closed higher on Friday, after two straight sessions…
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Macro · Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
France's state financing requirement will rise to 339.7 billion euros in 2027, up 28.0 billion euros from the updated 2026 figure, under…
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Markets · Oct 1, 2026 · 5 min read
Every index on our European board closed lower for a second straight session on Thursday, and the declines ran deeper: the banks…
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Macro · Sep 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Consumer price inflation rose in Germany, France, Italy and Spain in September, according to flash estimates from the 4 national statistics offices.…
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Markets · Sep 30, 2026 · 5 min read
Every one of the nine rows we track closed lower on Wednesday, the quarter's final European session: Paris's CAC 40 fell 0.89…
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Macro · Sep 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Consumer prices in France rose 3.0 percent in the year to September, up from 2.4 percent in August, according to INSEE's provisional…
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Macro · Sep 30, 2026 · 2 min read
France's general government debt under the Maastricht definition rose by 59.6 billion euros in the second quarter to 3,595.5 billion euros, or…
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Markets · Sep 29, 2026 · 5 min read
Europe split down the middle on Tuesday: technology was the only one of the eight Stoxx supersectors we track to rise, jumping…
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Markets · Sep 28, 2026 · 5 min read
Europe closed its first session after the weekend's Hormuz rejection flat at the index level and split underneath: the Stoxx Europe 600…
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Energy & Commodities · Sep 26, 2026 · 3 min read
The European benchmark gas price rose another 15.1 percent in August to an average of 62.1 euros per megawatt hour, after a…
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Markets · Sep 25, 2026 · 8 min read
Europe bought back most of Thursday's fall and the one index that declined barely moved. Eight of the nine rows on our…
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Markets · Sep 24, 2026 · 7 min read
Europe sold every index on our board for a second straight session, and this time the barrel was the loudest thing on…
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Macro · Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
France's business climate indicator fell 2 points to 96 in September, moving further below its long-term average of 100, INSEE said on…
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Markets · Sep 23, 2026 · 8 min read
Europe closed lower across all nine boards on Wednesday and left one patch of green on the sector table. London's FTSE 100…
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Macro · Sep 19, 2026 · 4 min read
The French economy will grow 0.4 percent in 2026, 3 times less than its euro area neighbours and the United Kingdom, and…
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Macro · Sep 6, 2026 · 5 min read
France's national financial prosecutor had 65.2 million euros seized by the Belgian judiciary in the tax investigation into McKinsey & Company, an…
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Macro · Aug 29, 2026 · 8 min read
Fitch Ratings affirmed France's long term sovereign credit rating at A+ with a Stable Outlook on 28 August 2026, even as it…
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Macro · Aug 28, 2026 · 6 min read
France's gross domestic product was unchanged in the second quarter of 2026, at 0.0 percent quarter on quarter growth, following a 0.2…
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Macro · Aug 27, 2026 · 3 min read
The premium investors demand to hold French ten-year government bonds over Germany's widened to around 88 basis points on August 27, 2026,…
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Macro · Aug 26, 2026 · 4 min read
The European benchmark natural gas price that INSEE tracks each month jumped 20.1 percent in July from June, while the benchmark price…
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France · Aug 8, 2026 · 3 min read
France's unemployment rate on the International Labour Organization definition rose to 8.3 percent of the labour force in the second quarter of…
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France · Aug 7, 2026 · 3 min read
French manufacturing output fell 1.1 percent in June 2026 after a 1.0 percent fall in May, the national statistics institute reported on…
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France · Aug 6, 2026 · 4 min read
Private-sector activity across the euro area expanded at its fastest rate in eight months in July, with the services sector returning to…
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Macro · Jul 30, 2026 · 4 min read
France returned to growth in the second quarter of 2026, but the composition of the rebound points to limited underlying domestic momentum.…
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Macro · Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
French consumer price inflation slowed to 1.8 percent in June from 2.4 percent in May, the statistics office INSEE confirmed on Friday,…
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Macro · Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
France's trade deficit widened to about 6.9 billion euros in May, from around 5.4 billion in April, as a drop in exports…
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Markets · Jun 27, 2026 · 3 min read
France's business climate stabilised in June, but the labour market signal weakened, pointing to a fragile recovery in the euro area's second…
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Markets · Jun 25, 2026 · 3 min read
Business sentiment in the euro area's two largest economies improved slightly in June, but the gains remained modest and the underlying indicators…
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Macro · Jun 15, 2026 · 4 min read
France’s consumer price inflation rose for a fourth straight month in May 2026, confirming a reacceleration driven mainly by energy. The final…
Read more →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 called a record, as revenue outpaced almost flat costs. ING, the Amsterdam-listed bank, reported third-quarter net result up 3.5% the same day. For Societe Generale shareholders, nine-month return on tangible equity reached 12.3%,…
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 London took the Healey budget in stride. Earnings did the day’s sorting: in The Edge’s reading, results that rewarded Deutsche Bank and punished Santander moved the continent’s markets, while the budget’s clearest mark…
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 higher profit on their own headline measures. In The Edge’s reading, wealth and markets businesses supplied much of the growth at UBS and Standard Chartered, and the corporate and institutional bank at BNP…
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 closed eight of its nine indices higher, on our count. Basic resources climbed 2.08 percent and technology 1.99 percent to lead the Stoxx sectors, while London’s FTSE 100 fell 0.75 percent, the lone…
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 DAX added 0.91 percent after a stronger-than-expected Ifo survey, and the Stoxx Europe 600 rose 0.77 percent to 640.66, ending two straight declines, at the start of a week in which the Federal…
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 a negative outlook. The ministry’s statement came after the EU statistics office put French public debt at 119.1 percent of GDP at the end of June, in figures released on 21 October. In…
The oil and gas group rose 2.99 percent on Friday, the only gainer among the eight Stoxx supersectors we track, on a day United States crude topped 100 dollars a barrel on renewed concern that the United States-Iran conflict will flare again, per CNBC’s report. The Stoxx Europe 600 slipped 0.31 percent to 635.77, a…
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 reported. The third quarter alone brought in 11,561.4 million euros. On the group’s adjusted like-for-like measure, which strips out the timing of its IT transformation, growth quickened to 7.7 percent from 6.3 percent…
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, while Gucci shrank 4 percent. Both groups reported on 22 October 2026, the same day as Prada. Moncler reported on 21 October and LVMH on 12 October. On our reading, the five releases…
Milan’s FTSE MIB fell 2.54 percent on Thursday, the deepest decline on a day when all nine European indices we track closed lower. Banks and miners fell hardest among the sectors, down 3.54 and 3.89 percent, while health care rose 2.07 percent. The retreat completed a clean sweep across our coverage: every index we published…
