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European shares steady, near eight-month highs before ECB meeting

Reuters - UK Focus

LONDON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - European stock markets were steady in early trading on Thursday, leaving a leading regional index near eight-month highs, with many investors focusing on a European Central Bank (ECB) meeting later in the day.

The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 0.1 percent, near its highest level in eight months.

Shares (Berlin: DI6.BE - news) in British software group Micro Focus surged 20 percent, the best-performing stock on the STOXX 600 index, after sealing an $8.8 billion deal with Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HPQ - news) Enterprise.

The euro zone economy is widely expected to need more stimulus from the European Central Bank, but it may not come at the bank's policy meeting on Thursday.

Growth and inflation remain weak, but the ECB has already exhausted much of its firepower, so ECB President Mario Draghi has to pick his time and probably has enough arguments to wait a bit longer. (Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta, editing by Larry King)