European stock markets face rough water over new accounting ...
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PARIS, Oct 17  - European stock markets could be heading for a patch of rough water with the introduction of new accounting standards, analysts are warning, saying that stock prices could be bounced around and initial public offerings held back.
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European equity markets fell on Thursday, giving back some of the previous session&#39;s  gains, amid renewed concerns about the fallout from the credit crisis on the banking sector.
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European equity markets were choppy in the face of deepening US recession fears, with banking stocks providing the biggest drag.
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Interest rate fears add to jitters in financial markets.
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European equity markets were volatile on Wednesday in the face of deepening US recession fears, which dragged Wall Street and Asian indices sharply lower.
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Europe should soon see its first handful of complex structured debt vehicles backed by different exposures to commercial real estate, but the rating of these deals is proving difficult, Standard &amp; Poor's argues.
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Fears that more losses were lurking on the books of European financials sent the sector shuddering lower on Monday and dragged down the wider market.
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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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Stocks looked set to follow European  and Asian markets lower on Wednesday after a British lender  took a write-down and an arm of KKR private equity group said  it had to delay debt repayments, sparking new worries for  financial shares.
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Business & money: Markets on both sides of the Atlantic take  fright  at data showing weakness in the US and Germany.
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European equities were slightly higher on Tuesday, but the weight of the gains were defensive in nature as investors remained cautious about financial stocks.
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LONDON As a battle to merge with the London Stock Exchange heats up, attention is focusing once again on a hotly contested and as of yet unanswered question: How many stock exchanges does Europe really need, anyhow?
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European equity markets traded cautiously higher on Friday, but banks struggled in the wake of further unsettling writedowns related to the credit squeeze.
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The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is facing a possible bidding war after receiving its second takeover approach in a week. Paris-based rival Euronext made an approach just a week after the LSE said it had knocked
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European equity markets struggled to make gains on Tuesday as sentiment remained fragile ahead of the meeting of the US Federal Reserve which was widely expected to produce a cut in US interest rates in response to ongoing turmoil in money markets.
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Global stock markets suffered a fresh bout of turbulence on Monday as concerns about a slowdown in the US economy and the fallout from the credit squeeze continued to unnerve investors.
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Problems in the bond markets put pressure on financial firms' shares.