European Stocks at 2-1/2-Year Highs
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European shares clung to 2-1/2 year highs on Wednesday after U.S. blue chips hit their best level in 3-1/2 years, with drugmaker AstraZeneca starring after Japan gave the green light to a key drug.
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European stock markets scaled near-2-1/2  year highs on Friday after strong overnight gains on Wall  Street as the euro held off from mounting another assault on  $1.30 and as oil prices traded below $48 a barrel.
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The pound breaches $2 - close to record highs - in early trade in Europe on expectations of a UK rate rise.
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European shares snapped higher on Wednesday after a two-day losing streak thanks to gains for the financials sector.
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European shares kicked off 2005 by climbing to their highest in almost two and a half years on Monday after a small rebound by the dollar lifted exporters such as car giant DaimlerChrysler.
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European shares crept to a two-month  closing high on Monday, boosted by tech stocks and other  sectors most exposed to the global economic cycle but trade was  lackluster with the United States on holiday.
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European equities hit new 5&frac12;-year highs on Thursday in a broad advance led by heavyweight banking, oil and mining stocks.
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European shares stormed toward 2  1/2-year highs Monday as relief that the Iraq elections went  better than expected helped to ease investor jitters,  pressuring oil, gold and bonds and lifting the dollar.
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European stock markets mainly rose on Wednesday, with Frankfurt's DAX 30 index breaching 7,000 points for the first time since November 2000, after another record performance on Wall Street.
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European shares hit new 2-1/2 year highs  on Friday, with British Airways up 1 percent after it raised  its revenue outlook and beat forecasts, and with the market  focusing on U.S. employment data due later in the day.
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European stocks touched two-month highs  on Monday as tech shares rallied after STMicroelectronics    stuck to its full year forecast while government bond yields  firmed on continuing speculation about rate hikes.
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The euro hovered near two-month highs on  Friday as key U.S. data loomed and as traders awaited a Group  of Seven meeting of finance ministers, while oil-fired  inflation fears lifted gold close to a 5-1/2 month high.
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European stocks and currencies rose on  Friday as manufacturing data reinforced the view the region  will outperform a slowing U.S. economy in 2007, while crude oil  retreated after hitting a two-month high above $63.
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European stocks rose Wednesday, shaking off declines on U.S. stock indexes the previous day, and investors on Wall Street drove up the Dow Jones industrial average by 100 points in the hunt for bargain stocks.
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European stocks touched two-month highs on Monday as tech shares rallied after STMicroelectronics   stuck to its full year forecast while government bond yields firmed on continuing speculation about rate hikes.
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European shares stormed toward 2 1/2-year highs Monday as relief that the Iraq elections went better than expected helped to ease investor jitters, pressuring oil, gold and bonds and lifting the dollar.
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European shares hovered near 2-1/2 year  highs on Tuesday as economic optimism prevailed, but British  retailer Woolworths fell 8 percent after it reported sluggish  Christmas sales.