{"id":65936,"date":"2025-10-29T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/29\/european-shares-mixed-ahead-of-fed-verdict\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:00:03","slug":"european-shares-mixed-ahead-of-fed-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/29\/european-shares-mixed-ahead-of-fed-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"European Shares Mixed Ahead Of Fed Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> European shares were mixed on Wednesday as investors digested a slew of earnings and looked ahead to the Federal Reserve&#8217;s interest-rate decision later in the day, with a 25-bps cut fully priced in. <\/p>\n<p>The pan European Stoxx 600 was marginally lower at 575.73 after falling 0.2 percent on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The German DAX was marginally higher and the U.K.&#8217;s FTSE 100 rose 0.4 percent while France&#8217;s CAC 40 slipped 0.1 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Logitech International shares jumped nearly 5 percent. The Swiss-based computer peripherals firm posted higher annual second quarter fiscal 2026 earnings, beating estimates. <\/p>\n<p>Dutch chip-making equipment supplier ASM International rose about 2 percent despite reporting third-quarter bookings below market expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes-Benz soared 8 percent. The German carmaker confirmed its annual outlook and plans to proceed with a \u20ac2 billion ($2.3 billion) share buyback after posting stronger-than-expected third-quarter results.<\/p>\n<p>Deutsche Bank advanced 1.7 percent after the lender posted a surprise 7 percent increase in quarterly profit, defying expectation for a drop.<\/p>\n<p>Chemicals maker BASF rallied 2.8 percent after quarterly adjusted operating earnings came in slightly above expectations. <\/p>\n<p>Swedish industrial bearings maker SKF slumped 4.3 percent as it reported sales and adjusted operating profit for the third quarter of 2025 in line with analysts&#8217; expectations. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/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 Mixed Ahead Of Fed Verdict<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-10-29 09:00:03<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European shares were mixed on Wednesday as investors digested a slew of earnings and looked ahead to the Federal Reserve&#8217;s interest-rate decision later in the day, with a 25-bps cut&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65937,"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-65936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65936","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=65936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/65937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}