{"id":67798,"date":"2025-05-02T07:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/67798\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T07:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:26:10","slug":"europe-stocks-open-to-close-earnings-data-us-china-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/67798\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe stocks open to close: earnings, data, US-China trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks opened higher on Friday, as investors assessed a signal that China is seeking trade negotiations will the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.STOXX\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoxx 600<\/a> index jumped 0.88% in early deals, led by mining stocks, up 2.5%, while banks climbed 1.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Most markets were closed on Thursday for the May 1 holiday. London&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.FTSE\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FTSE 100<\/a> ended a choppy session 0.02% higher to mark its 14th straight session in the green, drawing level with its best run since 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/SHEL-GB\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shell<\/a> shares rose 2.4% after the oil major beat profit expectations for the first quarter and announced its latest $3.5 billion share buyback.<\/p>\n<p>April data on the preliminary euro zone inflation rate is due to be released at 10 a.m. London time.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"headline\"\/>Top posts<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shell posts sharp fall in first-quarter profit, launches $3.5 billion share buyback<strong> | <\/strong><a href=\"#108139813-post\"><strong>view post<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NatWest beats on profit in first quarter<strong> | <\/strong><a href=\"#108139793-post\"><strong>view post<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Copper rises on China&#8217;s consideration of trade talks with the U.S.<strong> | <\/strong><a href=\"#108139769-post\"><strong>view post<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mo\u00ebt Hennessy to cut 10% of its workforce: Report | <a href=\"#108139802-post\"><strong>view post<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2014 CNBC&#8217;s Anniek Bao contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European stocks opened higher on Friday, as investors assessed a signal that China is seeking trade negotiations will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[30890,11657,20955,3084,30888,31988,20935,5189,3085,7426,30887,1395,7425,15345,29933,30889,3686,32,2000,299,5187,36,1880,15158,1824,31990,29934,2199,31992,15251,15253,24012,30892,30893,29936,29935,7686,12738,34251,31989,30886,34252,7687,5191,31991,13733,49,15344,30891,31987],"class_list":{"0":"post-67798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-adidas-ag","9":"tag-airbus-se","10":"tag-amazon-com-inc","11":"tag-apple-inc","12":"tag-astrazeneca-plc","13":"tag-barclays-plc","14":"tag-bp-plc","15":"tag-breaking-news-europe","16":"tag-business-news","17":"tag-cac-40-index","18":"tag-carlsberg-a-s","19":"tag-china","20":"tag-dax","21":"tag-deutsche-bank-ag","22":"tag-deutsche-boerse-ag","23":"tag-deutsche-lufthansa-ag","24":"tag-donald-j-trump","25":"tag-donald-trump","26":"tag-eu","27":"tag-europe","28":"tag-european","29":"tag-france","30":"tag-ftse-100","31":"tag-ftse-mib","32":"tag-germany","33":"tag-gsk-plc","34":"tag-hsbc-holdings-plc","35":"tag-italy","36":"tag-mercedes-benz-group-ag","37":"tag-meta-platforms-inc","38":"tag-microsoft-corp","39":"tag-natwest-group-plc","40":"tag-novartis-ag","41":"tag-porsche-ag","42":"tag-porsche-automobil-holding-se","43":"tag-schneider-electric-se","44":"tag-scott-bessent","45":"tag-shell-plc","46":"tag-smith-nephew-plc","47":"tag-societe-generale-sa","48":"tag-spirit-aerosystems-holdings-inc","49":"tag-standard-chartered-plc","50":"tag-stellantis-nv","51":"tag-stoxx-600","52":"tag-totalenergies-se","53":"tag-ubs-group-ag","54":"tag-united-states","55":"tag-volkswagen-ag","56":"tag-volvo-ab","57":"tag-volvo-car-ab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}