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STOXX 600 up 0.5%
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Most Asia-Pac markets closed for holiday
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Wall St futures steady
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SEA OF GREEN FOR EUROPEAN MARKETS
All the major European equity indexes are trading higher on Monday in a relatively calm
start before key inflation data from the U.S., UK and Switzerland is released later in the week.
The pan-European STOXX 600 .STOXX is up around 0.4%, trading just below a more than
two-year high reached earlier this month.
Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE , Germany's DAX 40 .GDAXI and France's CAC 40 .FCHI are up
0.04%-0.35%.
Italy's FTSE MIB .FTMIB is up over 0.6% to its highest since 2008, while the IBEX .IBEX
in Spain is up by a similar margin.
The real estate sector .SX86P leads the way up, recovering from touching its lowest level
since Dec. 1 on Friday, supported by a near 3% rise in Germany's TAG Immobilien TEGG.DE .
M&A in the sector comes from across the North Sea with shares in UK Commercial Property REIT
UKCM.L rising almost 5% after receiving a possible offer from Tritax Big Box BBOXT.L ,
valuing them at 924 million pounds.
In other corporate news, Siemens Energy ENR1n.DE is up over 4% after an upgrade at BofA
Securities.
Here's your opening snapshot:
(Samuel Indyk)
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FOR MONDAY'S OTHER LIVE MARKETS POSTS:
EUROPEAN SHARES SET TO CONTINUE MARCH HIGHER CLICK HERE
US INFLATION LOOMS LARGE WITH ASIA ON HOLIDAY
CLICK HERE
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