{"id":1799,"date":"2026-02-06T21:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/1799\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T21:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:01:42","slug":"stoxx-600-shell-anglo-american-maersk-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/1799\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoxx 600, Shell, Anglo American, Maersk earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Shell gas station on May 03, 2024 in Austin, Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brandon Bell | Getty Images<\/p>\n

LONDON \u2014 The European stock market finished lower Thursday as traders assessed regional earnings reports.<\/p>\n

The pan-European Stoxx 600<\/a> ended the session down almost 1.1%, with all major bourses in negative territory.<\/p>\n

It was another busy day of earnings reports in Europe with BBVA<\/a>, BNP Paribas<\/a>, Vinci<\/a>, BMW<\/a>, Siemens Healthineers<\/a>, Anglo American<\/a>, Danske Bank<\/a>, ArcelorMittal<\/a>, Moller Maersk<\/a> and Vestas Wind Systems<\/a> among the companies reporting. <\/p>\n

Rheinmetall<\/a> closed 6.5% lower after it indicated weak preliminary forecasts for 2026 during an investor and analyst call.<\/p>\n

The company now expects full-year revenues of around 13.6 billion euros due to lower-than-expected growth in all defense divisions, according to a Reuters report.<\/p>\n

Volvo Cars<\/a> also announced earnings Thursday. It said fourth-quarter operating income excluding items affecting comparability fell by 68% to 1.8 billion Swedish krona ($200.46 million) compared to the same period a year prior. Shares finished down 22.5%<\/a>.<\/p>\n

British oil major\u00a0Shell<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday reported weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter profit<\/a> amid lower crude prices, with adjusted earnings of $3.26 billion for the quarter, missing analyst expectations of $3.53 billion, according to an LSEG-compiled consensus. Shell ended the session 3.4% lower.<\/p>\n

\"Shell<\/p>\n

The Bank of England left its interest rate unchanged<\/a> at 3.75%.<\/p>\n

The yield on 10-year gilts \u2014 the benchmark for U.K. government borrowing \u2014 rose about 1 basis point to 4.546%, while sterling was last seen down 0.71% against the dollar at $1.3553 following the decision.<\/p>\n

The European Central Bank also held its key interest rate steady<\/a>, at 2%, on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Global markets have experienced turbulence this week, with Wall Street seeing a second straight day of losses Wednesday<\/a> following a selloff in software stocks. <\/p>\n

S&P 500 futures rose overnight after the latest batch of corporate earnings, including Alphabet results<\/a>. The quarterly results of fellow “Magnificent Seven” member\u00a0Amazon<\/a>\u00a0are due Thursday.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Asia-Pacific markets<\/a> overnight, South Korean stocks led declines, tracking Wall Street losses as the tech sell-off gained momentum.<\/p>\n

Data releases in Europe on Thursday include German factory orders, French industrial production and EU retail sales. <\/p>\n

\u2014 Jordan Butt contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Shell gas station on May 03, 2024 in Austin, Texas.\u00a0 Brandon Bell | Getty Images LONDON \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[224],"tags":[2166,2164,2165,2162,2171,2168,2170,1328,1275,1324,725,1325,234,1326,1323,190,159,245,286,2173,2174,1320,2167,1327,2163,2161,2169,2172,1733,1322],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-maersk","tag-anglo-american-plc","tag-ap-moeller-maersk-a-s","tag-arcelormittal-sa","tag-banco-bbva-argentina-sa","tag-banco-bilbao-vizcaya-argentaria-sa","tag-bayerische-motoren-werke-ag","tag-bnp-paribas-sa","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business-news","tag-cac-40-index","tag-danske-bank-a-s","tag-dax","tag-france","tag-ftse-100","tag-ftse-mib","tag-germany","tag-italy","tag-maersk","tag-markets","tag-pandora-a-s","tag-rheinmetall-ag","tag-shell-plc","tag-siemens-healthineers-ag","tag-stoxx-600","tag-vestas-wind-systems-a-s","tag-vinci-partners-investments-ltd","tag-vinci-sa","tag-volvo-car-ab","tag-world-economy","tag-world-markets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}