Paris/London/Zurich (dpa -AfX) – The recently weakening European stock markets stabilized somewhat on Wednesday. After the latest reset, investors again grabbed, but with caution. The stock exchanges were favored by the falling returns for bonds. Above all, the decline in French government papers caused some relaxation. The increase in return due to the high public debt of France had recently burdened the share prices.
The EuroStoxx 50 as a civic barometer for the Euro zone rose by 0.64 percent to 5,325.01 points. The day before, the index had slipped to the bottom for almost four weeks.
Outside the euro zone, the signals at the middle of the week were also on relaxation. So the Swiss SMI went up 0.92 percent to exactly 12,200 points. The British FTSE 100 won 0.67 percent to 9177.99 points.
In the market -wide Stoxx Europe 600, which had only shown losers the day before, clearly outweighed the winners on Wednesday: 14 out of 19 sectors, 14. The pharmaceutical values (STOXX EU600 Health Care) were at the forefront.
The technology sector also increased, which should also be due to the US internet giant Google. The shares of the parent company Alphabet (Alphabet A (Ex Google)) increased the Nasdaq after a long-awaited court ruling has rejected the crowd of the group required by the US government. According to this, Google should not be forced to separate yourself from the web browser Chrome and the Android mobile operating system. The government decided that the government went too far with its demands, the responsible judge in Washington decided.
The insurers included losers among Europe’s sectors. Since the record high, the picture has been determined here almost two weeks ago. The shares of the industry representative Swiss Life showed a similar picture, which after half-year numbers as the bottom of the Swiss SMI index lost one percent./Bek/NAS