Advertisement
UK markets close in 8 hours 14 minutes

  • FTSE 100

    8,081.56
    +41.18 (+0.51%)
     

  • FTSE 250

    19,647.63
    -71.74 (-0.36%)
     

  • AIM

    755.15
    +0.46 (+0.06%)
     

  • GBP/EUR

    1.1659
    +0.0015 (+0.13%)
     

  • GBP/USD

    1.2493
    +0.0030 (+0.24%)
     

  • Bitcoin GBP

    51,482.72
    -2,007.71 (-3.75%)
     

  • CMC Crypto 200

    1,390.18
    +7.61 (+0.55%)
     

  • S&P 500

    5,071.63
    +1.08 (+0.02%)
     

  • DOW

    38,460.92
    -42.77 (-0.11%)
     

  • CRUDE OIL

    83.04
    +0.23 (+0.28%)
     

  • GOLD FUTURES

    2,333.20
    -5.20 (-0.22%)
     

  • NIKKEI 225

    37,628.48
    -831.60 (-2.16%)
     

  • HANG SENG

    17,289.61
    +88.34 (+0.51%)
     

  • DAX

    18,052.01
    -36.69 (-0.20%)
     

  • CAC 40

    8,085.79
    -6.07 (-0.07%)
     
Property:

How to sell your home

Top tips from property investors

European shares steady, Monte dei Paschi surges

Reuters - UK Focus

LONDON, Dec 28 (Reuters) - European shares steadied early on Monday after re-opening following the Christmas holiday, with investors seen as reluctant to place strong bets in thin year-end trading.

The Euro STOXX 50 index was flat in percentage terms at 0808 GMT, Germany's DAX was up 0.04 percent, while France's CAC fell 0.1 percent.

Banca Monte dei Paschi (Milan: BMPS.MI - news) rose 3 percent after Italy's third-largest bank said it had signed a binding agreement to sell a portfolio of non-performing loans with a gross book value of 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) to a Deutsche Bank vehicle, said on Monday.

However, shares in Adidas (Other OTC: ADDDF - news) fell 0.4 percent after the company's CFO Robin Stalker told Boersen-Zeitung that he expected sourcing costs to rise by half a billion euros in 2016 due to negative currency effects. (Reporting by Atul Prakash; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)