{"id":54606,"date":"2025-01-02T09:01:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T09:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/01\/02\/european-shares-mixed-in-lackluster-trade-factory-pmi-data-eyed\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T09:01:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T09:01:24","slug":"european-shares-mixed-in-lackluster-trade-factory-pmi-data-eyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/01\/02\/european-shares-mixed-in-lackluster-trade-factory-pmi-data-eyed\/","title":{"rendered":"European Shares Mixed In Lackluster Trade; Factory PMI Data Eyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> European stocks traded mixed on Thursday as traders returned to their desks after the New Year holidays. <\/p>\n<p>In economic releases, U.K. house prices grew 4.7 percent year-on-year in December, faster than the 3.7 percent increase in November and also stronger than economists&#8217; forecast of 3.8 percent gain., data from the Nationwide Building Society showed earlier today. <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, on a monthly basis, house price inflation softened to 0.7 percent from 1.2 percent in November.<\/p>\n<p>Investors await final factory Purchasing Managers&#8217; survey results from the euro area and the U.K. later in the day for important clues on how the manufacturing sector performed in the final month of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The pan-European STOXX 600 was down 0.1 percent at 507.08, slipping from near a two-week high after experiencing its steepest quarterly decline in over two years from October to December.<\/p>\n<p>The German DAX and the U.K.&#8217;s FTSE 100 were little changed, while France&#8217;s CAC 40 dipped half a percent.<\/p>\n<p>Higher commodity prices lifted mining and energy stocks, with Antofagasta, Glencore and BP Plc all rising around 1 percent in London. <\/p>\n<p>Vestas Wind Systems jumped 3.2 percent after the Danish wind turbine maker announced a number of supply orders in Europe in the second half of December that add up to over 1.2 GW of combined capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Intrum AB, Europe&#8217;s largest debt collector, soared 13 percent after a U.S. court approved its restructuring plan.<\/p>\n<p>Vodafone edged up slightly after completing the sale of its Italian operations to Swisscom for \u20ac8 billion in cash. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Business News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>European Shares Mixed In Lackluster Trade; Factory PMI Data Eyed<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-01-02 09:01:24<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks traded mixed on Thursday as traders returned to their desks after the New Year holidays. 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