{"id":64392,"date":"2025-09-19T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/09\/19\/european-shares-extend-gains-as-uk-retail-sales-rise\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T09:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:00:31","slug":"european-shares-extend-gains-as-uk-retail-sales-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/09\/19\/european-shares-extend-gains-as-uk-retail-sales-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"European Shares Extend Gains As UK Retail Sales Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> European stocks were broadly higher on Friday as a busy week, which included crucial central bank decisions, draws to a close. <\/p>\n<p>In economic news, investors cheered data that showed U.K. retail sales increased for the third straight month in August.<\/p>\n<p>Retail sales volume increased 0.5 percent in August from a month ago, the Office for National Statistics said. <\/p>\n<p>This followed a similar revised 0.5 percent increase seen in July and outpaced economists&#8217; forecast of 0.4 percent gain. <\/p>\n<p>The pan European STOXX 600 was up 0.3 percent at 556.62 after climbing 0.8 percent in the previous session. <\/p>\n<p>The German DAX gained 0.3 percent, France&#8217;s CAC 40 surged 0.9 percent and the U.K.&#8217;s FTSE 100 was marginally higher.<\/p>\n<p>British telecom operator Vodafone rose 1.1 percent after it agreed to acquire Telekom Romania Mobile Communications S.A. and its post-paid customer base for \u20ac30 million.<\/p>\n<p>IG Group Holdings fell nearly 2 percent after it announced the acquisition of Independent Reserve, a leading cryptocurrency exchange based in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Close Brothers slumped 5 percent after the lender delayed its preliminary 2025 results by a week.<\/p>\n<p>Auto supplier Stabilus lost 4.6 percent after cutting its net profit outlook below market estimates. <\/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 Extend Gains As UK Retail Sales Rise<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-09-19 09:00:31<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks were broadly higher on Friday as a busy week, which included crucial central bank decisions, draws to a close. In economic news, investors cheered data that showed U.K&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64392","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=64392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/64393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}