STM, Oil Prices Pressure European Shares
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European shares inched lower on Friday as a broker downgrade hit STMicroelectronics and volatile oil prices continued to feed economic worries, offsetting solid earnings at utility Veolia.
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European stocks slipped and the dollar  was soft on Friday as the rise in crude oil prices toward $50 a  barrel raised the prospect of slower economic growth, which  supported bond prices.
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European shares fell on Friday as the euro rallied to a 1-1/2-year high, hurting the export reliant car sector, while French energy services group Technip <TECF.PA) rose on takeover speculation.
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European shares edged lower on Friday surrendering early gains after taking a battering in the previous session, with the market treading water ahead of key inflation data from the US.
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Europe&#39;s main stock markets wobbled for a second straight trading day on Monday as banking share prices extended heavy losses led by troubled Northern Rock.
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European equity markets made a weak start to the new trading week on Monday amid ongoing concerns about the impact of a weaker dollar on companies which generate a high proportion of their earnings in the US.
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A further wave of takeover stories and oil slipping below $60 a barrel buoyed Europe's bourses on Monday morning.
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Europe's main stock markets suffered heavy falls as investors fretted over plummeting share prices in Shanghai, high oil prices and a suicide blast in Afghanistan, dealers said Tuesday.
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European equities retreated on Thursday, with technology stocks under pressure after disappointing news from Applied Materials, while the euro&#39;s rise to new record highs against the dollar also weighed.
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European equity markets moved lower on Thursday as investors remained cautious in the face of record oil prices and slowing economic growth.
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European shares edged higher Tuesday, with easing oil prices underpinning market sentiment, but investors were cautious ahead of a neck-and-neck race in the US presidential elections.
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Europe's fragile recovery is being held back by the surge in world oil prices, which is limiting growth and threatening to stop key eurozone economies from restoring order to their public finances, analysts say.
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Weak investment banking stocks weighed on European equity markets on Tuesday amid concerns about the sector&#39;s exposure to the troubled US housing market.
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European stocks dipped on Friday as oil  prices hugged 6-week highs, stoking concerns that higher energy  costs will squeeze corporate profits, with Germany's Epcos  leading the way down after saying it may miss its 2005 sales  and earnings targets.
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Europe&#39;s main stock markets slid Thursday after the euro struck a record dollar high and oil prices surged above 80 dollars a barrel in New York, threatening company profits.
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Europe's main stock markets performed mixed Friday at the end of a tough week for global equities owing to record-high oil prices that risk fuelling inflation and slowing economic growth.
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European shares edged higher as oil prices fell to seven-week lows easing pressure on companies&#39; margins, but activity was muted ahead of the Federal Reserve&#39;s decision on interest rates later Wednesday.