European stocks dropped, deleting their advances for the year, after a report that Russian troops entered towns in eastern Ukraine, and as German confidence data missed economists’ projections.
SABMiller Plc missed 2.3 percent after saying it is considering options for the sale of its $1.04 billion stake in Tsogo Sun Holdings Ltd. Rio Tinto Group relinquished 3.1 percent after reporting first-quarter iron-ore output that missed projections. L’Oreal SA jumped 1.1 percent after recording greater first-quarter European revenue.
The Stoxx Europe 600 Index plummeted 1 percent to 326.58 at the close of trading. The gauge bounced back yesterday amid better-than-projected U.S. retail sales data and profits from Citigroup Inc., after last week deleting most of the year’s advances as investors sold technology shares on valuation concerns. The equity benchmark has dropped 0.5 percent so far this year.
“You have this huge uncertainty from the geopolitical front, which is pulling the market in a negative direction,” Witold Bahrke, who helps oversee $55 billion as a senior strategist at PFA Asset Management in Copenhagen, said in a phone interview. “There is a lack of conviction among investors. Sentiment is still tilted to the negative direction after the escalation in Ukraine at the weekend.”
The number of shares were traded in Stoxx 600-listed firms was 10 percent higher than the 30-day average, according to data recorded by Bloomberg.
Eastern Ukraine
Troops from Russia’s 45th Airborne Regiment were in the eastern towns of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, Ukraine’s first deputy Prime Minister Vitali Yarema stated in televised remarks on Channel 5. Ukrainian units supported by armored personnel carriers blocked all approaches to Slovyansk, Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news service reported earlier, citing an unidentified pro-Russian activist.
Four militants were killed and two wounded when Ukrainian troops stormed an airport in Kramatorsk, taking it under its own supervision, RIA Novosti also announced.
Envoys from Ukraine, Russia, the U.S. and European Union are scheduled to hold discussion in Geneva on April 17 in an attempt to end the dispute.
In Germany, a gauge of investor confidence downgraded for a fourth month in April. The ZEW Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim said its index of investor and analyst projections, which targets to calculate economic growth six months in advance, backslide to 43.2 from 46.6 in March. Economists had predicted a pullback to 45.
“There is little doubt that the ZEW data will have had a depressing impact on sentiment because Germany is the engine room of growth in the euro zone, Jeremy Batstone-Carr, head of research at Charles Stanley & Co., said in a phone interview.
Empire Manufacturing
In the U.S., the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s so-called Empire State manufacturing index sagged down to 1.29 this month from 5.61 in March. Economists polled by Bloomberg had calculated a hike to 8.
National benchmark indexes pulled back in all of the western-European markets except Norway. The U.K.’s FTSE 100 slide lower 0.6 percent, Germany’s DAX relinquished 1.8 percent, while France’s CAC 40 missed 0.9 percent.
Greece’s benchmark ASE Index plummeted 1.7 percent, for its ninth day of pullbacks and longest losing streak since August 2011. The equity gauge jumped 28 percent in 2013.
‘‘I think this is a case of people taking chips off the table as they’ve made so much money on Greece,” Ion-Marc Valahu, a co-founder and fund manager at Clairinvest in Geneva, said in a phone interview. “Greece is a small market, so if some investors leave it does not take too much for a cascading effect to the downside.”
SABMiller Declines
SABMiller surrendered 2.3 percent to 3,052.5 pence. The world’s second-largest brewer said its 39.6 percent holding in hotel and casino operator Tsogo Sun is not a core portion of its managements.
Rio Tinto deprecated 3.1 percent to 3,302.5 pence. The world’s second-biggest mining firm said first-quarter iron ore production rallied 8 percent to 52.3 million metric tons from 48.3 million tons a year earlier. That didn’t reach the 54.7 million-ton median projection of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
A gauge of mining stocks backed down 2.4 percent, for the weakest move of the 19 industry groups in the Stoxx 600. Voestalpine AG dive down 5 percent to 30.46 euros. ArcelorMittal gave up 3.5 percent to 11.57 euros.
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA depreciated 10 percent to 22.5 euro cents, for its largest decline since March 2012. Italy’s third-biggest bank said it may bolster the size of a planned share sale to reimburse part of a 4.1 billion-euro ($5.7 billion) government bailout.
L’Oreal Advances
L’Oreal (OR) climbed 1.1 percent to 122 euros. The world’s biggest cosmetics maker said first-quarter revenue increased 2.8 percent in western Europe, excluding currency shifts and acquisitions, while southern European sales developed for the first time in six years.
Sodexo jumped 3.3 percent to 77.36 euros. Deutsche Bank AG lifted its recommendation on the world’s second-bigest catering firm to purchase from hold, citing expected strong earnings growth, increased operational efficiencies and the possibility for cash returns.
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European stocks dropped, deleting their advances for the year, after a report that Russian troops entered towns in eastern Ukraine, and as German confidence data missed economists’ projections.
SABMiller Plc missed 2.3 percent after saying it is considering options for the sale of its $1.04 billion stake in Tsogo Sun Holdings Ltd. Rio Tinto Group relinquished 3.1 percent after reporting first-quarter iron-ore output that missed projections. L’Oreal SA jumped 1.1 percent after recording greater first-quarter European revenue.
The Stoxx Europe 600 Index plummeted 1 percent to 326.58 at the close of trading. The gauge bounced back yesterday amid better-than-projected U.S. retail sales data and profits from Citigroup Inc., after last week deleting most of the year’s advances as investors sold technology shares on valuation concerns. The equity benchmark has dropped 0.5 percent so far this year.
“You have this huge uncertainty from the geopolitical front, which is pulling the market in a negative direction,” Witold Bahrke, who helps oversee $55 billion as a senior strategist at PFA Asset Management in Copenhagen, said in a phone interview. “There is a lack of conviction among investors. Sentiment is still tilted to the negative direction after the escalation in Ukraine at the weekend.”
The number of shares were traded in Stoxx 600-listed firms was 10 percent higher than the 30-day average, according to data recorded by Bloomberg.
Eastern Ukraine
Troops from Russia’s 45th Airborne Regiment were in the eastern towns of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, Ukraine’s first deputy Prime Minister Vitali Yarema stated in televised remarks on Channel 5. Ukrainian units supported by armored personnel carriers blocked all approaches to Slovyansk, Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news service reported earlier, citing an unidentified pro-Russian activist.
Four militants were killed and two wounded when Ukrainian troops stormed an airport in Kramatorsk, taking it under its own supervision, RIA Novosti also announced.
Envoys from Ukraine, Russia, the U.S. and European Union are scheduled to hold discussion in Geneva on April 17 in an attempt to end the dispute.
In Germany, a gauge of investor confidence downgraded for a fourth month in April. The ZEW Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim said its index of investor and analyst projections, which targets to calculate economic growth six months in advance, backslide to 43.2 from 46.6 in March. Economists had predicted a pullback to 45.
“There is little doubt that the ZEW data will have had a depressing impact on sentiment because Germany is the engine room of growth in the euro zone, Jeremy Batstone-Carr, head of research at Charles Stanley & Co., said in a phone interview.
Empire Manufacturing
In the U.S., the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s so-called Empire State manufacturing index sagged down to 1.29 this month from 5.61 in March. Economists polled by Bloomberg had calculated a hike to 8.
National benchmark indexes pulled back in all of the western-European markets except Norway. The U.K.’s FTSE 100 slide lower 0.6 percent, Germany’s DAX relinquished 1.8 percent, while France’s CAC 40 missed 0.9 percent.
Greece’s benchmark ASE Index plummeted 1.7 percent, for its ninth day of pullbacks and longest losing streak since August 2011. The equity gauge jumped 28 percent in 2013.
‘‘I think this is a case of people taking chips off the table as they’ve made so much money on Greece,” Ion-Marc Valahu, a co-founder and fund manager at Clairinvest in Geneva, said in a phone interview. “Greece is a small market, so if some investors leave it does not take too much for a cascading effect to the downside.”
SABMiller Declines
SABMiller surrendered 2.3 percent to 3,052.5 pence. The world’s second-largest brewer said its 39.6 percent holding in hotel and casino operator Tsogo Sun is not a core portion of its managements.
Rio Tinto deprecated 3.1 percent to 3,302.5 pence. The world’s second-biggest mining firm said first-quarter iron ore production rallied 8 percent to 52.3 million metric tons from 48.3 million tons a year earlier. That didn’t reach the 54.7 million-ton median projection of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
A gauge of mining stocks backed down 2.4 percent, for the weakest move of the 19 industry groups in the Stoxx 600. Voestalpine AG dive down 5 percent to 30.46 euros. ArcelorMittal gave up 3.5 percent to 11.57 euros.
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA depreciated 10 percent to 22.5 euro cents, for its largest decline since March 2012. Italy’s third-biggest bank said it may bolster the size of a planned share sale to reimburse part of a 4.1 billion-euro ($5.7 billion) government bailout.
L’Oreal Advances
L’Oreal (OR) climbed 1.1 percent to 122 euros. The world’s biggest cosmetics maker said first-quarter revenue increased 2.8 percent in western Europe, excluding currency shifts and acquisitions, while southern European sales developed for the first time in six years.
Sodexo jumped 3.3 percent to 77.36 euros. Deutsche Bank AG lifted its recommendation on the world’s second-bigest catering firm to purchase from hold, citing expected strong earnings growth, increased operational efficiencies and the possibility for cash returns.
The material has been provided by InstaForex Company – www.instaforex.com
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