LIVE MARKETS-Morning headline roundup: Q1 earnings season in full swing

* European stocks futures hold steady

* Wall St, Asia stocks gain

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MORNING HEADLINE ROUNDUP: Q1 EARNINGS SEASON IN FULL SWING (0635 GMT)

AS you can see, the Q1 earnings season is now in full swing and dominating today's front

page:

Chinese baby food demand helps Danone Q1 sales beat forecasts

ASML (Milan: ASML.MI - news) posts 540 mln euros Q1 profit, announces first sales of new product

Vopak sees potential to "significantly" improve 2019 earnings

Remy Cointreau (Swiss: RCO.SW - news) keeps profit goal as China demand lifts Q4 sales

Channel tunnel group Getlink sees higher long-term profit as Brexit talks progress

Trump to boost exports of lethal drones to more U.S. allies-sources

Total (LSE: 524773.L - news) buys French electricity retailer Direct Energie (Stuttgart: 1485895.SG - news)

EXCLUSIVE-Imerys (LSE: 0NPX.L - news) selling 1 bln euro tiles business, buyout funds bidding -sources

Nissan, Ford, FCA lead European car sales decline

Rio Tinto (Hanover: CRA1.HA - news) flags changes to 2018 aluminium output after U.S. sanctions

Russia's Polymetal says Q1 revenue up 19 pct y/y

De La Rue (Other OTC: DELRF - news) will not appeal loss of UK 'Brexit' passport contract

(Julien Ponthus)

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EUROPEAN STOCKS FUTURES STEADY (0619 GMT)

After opening moderately higher, European stocks futures are now trading roughly flat to

very slightly higher as investors digest a flurry of company updates.

Here's your futures snapshot:

(Kit Rees)

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EUROPEAN EARNINGS: CONSUMER STOCKS IN FOCUS (0544 GMT)

As the Q1 earnings season gets underway, it looks like today is going to be a big day for

large, consumer-facing stocks with Danone (LSE: 0KFX.L - news) and Heineken (LSE: 0O26.L - news) set to report, while semiconductor

equipment maker ASML --whose shares are up 17 percent year to date-- is also due to give an

update. The full list of European companies set to give updates today is below:

VOPA.AS Q1 2018 Koninklijke Vopak NV Earnings Release

DANO.PA Q1 2018 Danone SA Corporate Sales Release

BAR.BR Q1 2018 Barco NV Corporate Sales Release

EDDG_p.F Q4 2017 edding AG Earnings Release

TEMN.S Q1 2018 Temenos Group AG Earnings Release

MONY.L Q1 2018 Moneysupermarket.Com Group PLC Trading Statement Release

JUP.L Q1 2018 Jupiter Fund Management PLC Trading Statement Release

GETP.PA Q1 2018 Getlink Corporate Sales Release

BNZL.L Q1 2018 Bunzl (LSE: BNZL.L - news) plc Trading Statement Release

SGRO.L Q1 2018 SEGRO PLC Trading Statement Release

ASML.AS Q1 2018 ASML Holding NV Earnings Release

ELISA (LSE: 0I8Y.L - news) .HE Q1 2018 Elisa Oyj Earnings Release

RCOP.PA Q4 2018 Remy Cointreau SA Corporate Sales Release

HEMF.ST Q1 2018 Hemfosa Fastigheter AB Earnings Release

REL.L Q1 2018 Relx PLC Trading Statement Release

HEIN.AS Q1 2018 Heineken NV Trading Statement Release

AVANZ.ST Q1 2018 Avanza Bank Holding AB Earnings Release

RELN.AS Q1 2018 Relx PLC Trading Statement Release

ACCP.PA Q1 2018 Accor SA Corporate Sales Release

BLT.L Q3 2018 BHP Billiton PLC Operational Review

SOIT.PA Q4 2018 Soitec SA Corporate Sales Release

BTPP.PA Q1 2018 Affine RE SA Corporate Sales Release

GFCP.PA Q1 2018 Gecina SA Corporate Sales Release

(Kit Rees)

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MORNING CALL: EUROPEAN SHARES SEEN OPENING HIGHER (0523 GMT)

Good morning. European shares are seen rising at the open on Wednesday, according to

financial spreadbetters, building on yesterday's bounce as worries over trade and geopolitics

take a backseat and earnings come into focus.

Spreadbetters expected Britain's FTSE 100 to open 18 points higher, Germany's DAX to rise 21

points and France's CAC to gain 12 points.

It was a similar story overnight for Asian equities, which were broadly higher, though

Chinese indexes struggled even after China's central bank unexpectedly said on Tuesday it will

reduce the cash banks hold as reserves, boosting liquidity in the banking system.

(Kit Rees)

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