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(Reuters) – European stocks opened Monday lower against weak Heineken brewery results and anxious surveillance of US interest rate cuts, overshadowing the rise of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) group. to reinforce his eventual purchase of Reventive.
The second largest brewer in the world is down 5.6%, after first-half profits fell below expectations, while Ryanair recorded a decline in profits and issued a price warning.
Shares of the London Stock Exchange group rose 11% after the stock trader announced that he was planning to buy Revivitives Holdings from the US group Blackstone, Revivitives Holdings, for a direct investment of 27 billion USD , including debt.
Sanofi rose 2.3% after the company raised its guidance for 2019 by supporting strong growth in its treatments for serology and rare diseases.
The Stoxx 600 index lost 0.1% at 07:10 GMT, after closing up 0.9% last week.
Data showing slowing economic growth in the United States and lower industrial profits in China last month reinforced expectations of a 25-basis-point cut by the Federal Reserve at its meeting, which begins Tuesday. and will last two days.
The British Financial Times 100 was the only gain among the leading European indices, driven by news from the London Stock Exchange and other talks, as well as by the decline in the pound on fears of an exit from the UK EU without agreement.
The British JustEight gained 23.1%, boosted by the announcement of talks that rival Take Away.com would buy for online food delivery services, as part of a potential contract to sell food online. a total value of 8.2 billion pounds ($ 10.1 billion).
(Reuters)
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