{"id":63245,"date":"2025-08-19T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/08\/19\/european-shares-inch-higher-on-hopes-of-russia-ukraine-peace-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:02:03","slug":"european-shares-inch-higher-on-hopes-of-russia-ukraine-peace-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/08\/19\/european-shares-inch-higher-on-hopes-of-russia-ukraine-peace-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"European Shares Inch Higher On Hopes Of Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> European stocks traded higher on Tuesday as investors weighed the possibility of a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump described his recent meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European partners as &#8216;very good&#8221; and said he&#8217;s begun arranging a meeting between Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin, possibly within the next two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky said he is open to &#8220;any format&#8221; of talks and would decide on the trilateral meeting based on how the first round goes.<\/p>\n<p>The pan European STOXX 600 edged up by 0.3 percent to 555.91 after finishing marginally higher on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The German DAX rose 0.2 percent, France&#8217;s CAC 40 climbed 0.6 percent and the U.K.&#8217;s FTSE 100 was up 0.2 percent. <\/p>\n<p>In corporate news, Swiss drug developer Basilea Pharmaceutica plunged 5 percent despite updating its 2025 financial guidance.<\/p>\n<p>British healthcare estate investor Assura rose 1.3 percent as Ed Smith stepped down as chairman of the board after seven years in the role. <\/p>\n<p>International Workplace Group slumped 17 percent after the office space provider reported a dip in first-half revenue. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Business News<\/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 Shares Inch Higher On Hopes Of Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-08-19 09:02:03<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks traded higher on Tuesday as investors weighed the possibility of a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. U.S. President Donald Trump described his recent meeting with Ukrainian President&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63245","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=63245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/63246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}