{"id":21376,"date":"2026-02-28T05:27:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/21376\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:27:55","slug":"stoxx-600-ftse-dax-cac-earnings-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/21376\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoxx 600, FTSE, DAX, CAC, earnings, data"},"content":{"rendered":"

European markets finished Friday’s session mixed as traders parsed through several earnings reports and economic data at the end of the week.<\/p>\n

The pan-European Stoxx 600<\/a> provisionally ended the day’s trade about 0.2% higher. Most sectors were in positive territory, but the region’s major bourses were mixed. <\/p>\n

On Friday, among the European companies reporting earnings are BASF<\/a>, Swiss Re<\/a>, Holcim<\/a>, IAG<\/a>, and Amadeus<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Reinsurance firm Swiss Re reported a profit of $4.8 billion<\/a> for 2025 on Friday, up 47% from the previous year, and the “highest level” in its history, according to CEO Andreas Berger. <\/p>\n

The company cited “disciplined underwriting, strong investment returns, and low large loss activity outside of the first quarter” for its results. It also announced plans for a $1.5 billion share buyback scheme. Its shares closed Friday’s session 3.8% higher. <\/p>\n

\"Strategic<\/p>\n

Barclays<\/a>‘ London-listed shares ended the day 4.5% lower following reports that the U.K. lender was exposed to the stricken mortgage provider Market Financial Solutions to the tune of \u00a3600 million ($809 million).<\/p>\n

Santander<\/a> is also said have provided financing to London-headquartered MFS, which specializes in bridge loans and buy-to-let mortgages. Santander was down 0.4%. MFS entered insolvency proceedings in a U.K. court earlier this week. <\/p>\n

On the economic data front, Germany, France, and Spain released inflation data, with unemployment figures from Germany and France and U.K. housing prices.<\/p>\n

In the U.K., all eyes were on the parliamentary by-election in Gorton and Denton<\/a> in Greater Manchester, where the Green Party won and overturned a large majority for the governing party, Labour.<\/p>\n

Reform UK came second, while Labour fell to third, which would be a significant setback for Prime Minister Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n

U.S. stock futures<\/a> pulled back overnight after Nvidia’s<\/a> latest results failed to boost the broader market with software stocks falling, including Salesforce<\/a> and Microsoft<\/a>. Stateside equities<\/a> were last seen in negative territory during Friday morning trade.<\/p>\n

Asia-Pacific markets<\/a> traded mixed on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European markets finished Friday’s session mixed as traders parsed through several earnings reports and economic data at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[14064,14074,14071,14073,14070,14068,2857,166,9185,14076,9184,14055,1001,2062,9186,1344,14066,14063,14065,14072,14058,14061,14069,14062,9182,14060,14075,14077,14054,231,10558,14078,11467,14059,14057,14056,4297,14067,423,9181,7268,41,17,9180,9187],"class_list":["post-21376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-amadeus-fire-ag","tag-andreas-berger","tag-banco-santander-brasil-sa","tag-banco-santander-sa","tag-barclays-plc","tag-basf-se","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business-news","tag-cac-40-index","tag-comscore-inc","tag-dax","tag-engie-sa","tag-france","tag-ftse-100","tag-ftse-mib","tag-germany","tag-holcim-ag","tag-iamgold-corp","tag-international-consolidated-airlines-group-sa","tag-ishares-msci-europe-financials-etf","tag-ishares-msci-eurozone-etf","tag-ishares-msci-france-etf","tag-ishares-msci-germany-etf","tag-ishares-msci-spain-etf","tag-ishares-msci-switzerland-etf","tag-ishares-msci-united-kingdom-etf","tag-keir-starmer","tag-lloyds-banking-group-plc","tag-london-stock-exchange-group-plc","tag-markets","tag-microsoft-corp","tag-natwest-group-plc","tag-nvidia-corp","tag-puma-biotechnology-inc","tag-puma-se","tag-rolls-royce-holdings-plc","tag-salesforce-inc","tag-sap-se","tag-spain","tag-state-street-spdr-euro-stoxx-50-etf","tag-stoxx-600","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland","tag-vanguard-ftse-europe-index-fund-etf-shares","tag-world-markets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}