{"id":57698,"date":"2025-03-21T17:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T17:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/21\/european-stocks-move-lower-on-economic-worries-heathrow-closure\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T17:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T17:37:36","slug":"european-stocks-move-lower-on-economic-worries-heathrow-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/21\/european-stocks-move-lower-on-economic-worries-heathrow-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"European Stocks Move Lower On Economic Worries, Heathrow Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> European stocks moved mostly lower during on Friday as investors fretted about increasing global economic uncertainties resulting from geopolitical tensions and U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s trade tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>The pan European STOXX 600 Index slid 0.6 percent to 549.67 after falling 0.4 percent to snap a four-day winning streak on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The U.K.&#8217;s FTSE 100 Index and the French CAC 40 Index also fell by 0.6 percent, while the German DAX Index shed 0.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Travel stocks faced selling pressure after a significant power outage caused by a nearby fire closed Britain&#8217;s Heathrow Airport for the day. Lufthansa fell 1.7 percent, IAG lost 1.9 percent and Air France KLM gave up 2.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas AG, a perfume and cosmetics retailer, plummeted 22.5 percent after lowering its FY2024\/25 guidance due to a decline in consumer sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrexpo plunged 10.8 on liquidity worries. The iron ore pellet producer said Ukrainian tax authorities had suspended its value-added tax refund worth 512.9 million hryvnias ($12.36 million).<\/p>\n<p>Steel group Salzgitter also tumbled by 2.6 percent after delivering a mixed financial performance in 2024. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/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 Stocks Move Lower On Economic Worries, Heathrow Closure<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-03-21 17:37:36<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks moved mostly lower during on Friday as investors fretted about increasing global economic uncertainties resulting from geopolitical tensions and U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s trade tariffs. The pan European&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1531412501799-1b4c354ca957?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2734&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/57699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}