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LIVE MARKETS-Early morning headline round-up

Reuters - UK Focus

July 10 - Welcome to the home for real-time coverage of European equity markets brought to

you by Reuters stocks reporters and anchored today by Helen Reid. Reach her on Messenger to

share your thoughts on market moves: helen.reid.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net

EARLY MORNING HEADLINE ROUND-UP (0552 GMT)

With Europe's earnings season still not in full gear, M&A dominates the company news agenda

today while China and Germany's commercial accords may help ease investors' trade war fears. The

deals involve German industrial giants including Siemens (BSE: SIEMENS.BO - news) , Volkswagen (IOB: 0P6N.IL - news) and BASF.

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With (Other OTC: WWTH - news) raft of deals, China and Germany swear to keep trade free

U.S. appeals court upholds Volkswagen's $10 bln diesel settlement

Fox preparing to top Comcast (Swiss: CMCSA.SW - news) offer for Sky (Amsterdam: BK8.AS - news) - FT

Siemens, Alstom (LSE: 0J2R.L - news) deal faces full-scale EU antitrust probe - sources

Activist Paulson beats drum for Premier Foods (Frankfurt: A1JWNB - news) management change

BlackRock (Sao Paolo: BLAK34.SA - news) expands in Paris with new hires ahead of Brexit, source says

EU clears Deutsche Telekom (IOB: 0MPH.IL - news) to buy Liberty Global (Frankfurt: A1W0FL - news) 's Austrian unit

(Helen Reid)

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MORNING CALL: REBOUND IN EUROPEAN SHARES TO CONTINUE (0536 GMT)

Following in the footsteps of global markets, European shares are set to extend their

rebound today as investors' attention turned to the upcoming U.S. earnings season, helping them

put trade war worries on the back burner.

Asian shares rallied for a third session as hopes for upbeat corporate earnings buoyed Wall

Street, while high-profile resignations from Britain's government kept sterling on the

defensive.

In case you missed it, here was our latest on the resignations and what they mean for

Britain's Brexit plan:

Spreadbetters at London Capital Group call the DAX 59 points higher at 12,602, the CAC 40 up

16 points at 5,419, and the FTSE 100 12 points higher at 7,700.

(Helen Reid)

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(Reporting by Danilo Masoni, Helen Reid, Kit Rees and Julien Ponthus)