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European shares rise after Wall Street opens up
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 25 - 01 - 2008


European shares were ending a torrid trading
week Friday on a subdued note with leading bourses edging up after
Wall Street pushed forward in early opening trading, according to dpa.
With a solid rise in stocks across Asia, Europe's blue-chip Dow
Jones Stoxx 50 index was up just 0.3 per cent at 3269.80 as Friday
trading drew to a close after climbing 1.6 per shortly after opening.
Signs of a measure of calm returning to global stock markets
followed a tumultuous week in share trading with stocks in Europe on
Monday chalking up their biggest one-day falls since the September 11
2001 terrorist attacks.
The rout on the world's bourses came in the wake of fears that the
US subprime mortgage market crisis could tip the giant US economy
into recession fears.
At the same time, the prospects of the US Federal Reserve
following up the hefty rate cut it delivered this week with another
reduction in borrowing costs next week helped to drive up the price
of gold to an all-time high of nearly 920 dollars an ounce.
Oil also nudged up in European trading to over 90 dollars a
barrel.
However, Friday's rise in European stocks was more measured than
Thursday when share indices bounded ahead to record their biggest
one-day rise in about five years with investors having been taken on
a roller coaster ride this week.
By late afternoon trading, Europe's premiere stock market in
London had slipped 0.03 per cent while Paris' CAC had climbed about
0.2 per cent with technology and banking stocks helping to underpin
the gains.
Frankfurt's DAX was up 0.66 per cent after gaining 1.7 per cent in
morning trading following a positive set of numbers from luxury
sports carmaker Porsche SE.
Share trading in emerging Europe was also more low-key Friday with
the Moscow stock market nudging up a solid 2.60 per cent and Prague
gaining 0.87 per cent. Warsaw was up 0.56 per cent.
The more stable mood prevailing in European share trading Friday
also came in the wake of strong closings across Asia with Japan's key
Nikkei index jumping more than 4 per cent.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng climbed 6.8 per cent while stocks in Taiwan
stocks rose nearly 3 per cent.
Meanwhile, the Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex index was
up 4.48 per cent and the Shanghai composite closed up 0.9 per cent.


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