{"id":67871,"date":"2025-12-19T09:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/12\/19\/european-shares-muted-us-pce-data-eyed\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:08:05","slug":"european-shares-muted-us-pce-data-eyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/12\/19\/european-shares-muted-us-pce-data-eyed\/","title":{"rendered":"European Shares Muted; US PCE Data Eyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> European stocks were little changed on Friday, a day after the European Central Bank and Bank of England issued hawkish signals on the outlook for their rate paths.<\/p>\n<p>After November&#8217;s U.S. inflation report showed an unexpected decline in price growth, the core PCE price index, widely regarded as the Federal Reserve&#8217;s preferred inflation gauge, along with the existing home sales report will be in focus later in the day. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, European Union leaders have decided to borrow cash to fund Ukraine&#8217;s defense rather than use frozen Russian monies.<\/p>\n<p>The pan European Stoxx 600 was marginally higher at 585.67 after climbing 1 percent on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The German DAX and France&#8217;s CAC 40 were also marginally higher while the U.K.&#8217;s FTSE 100 traded with a negative bias. <\/p>\n<p>Sportswear giant Puma fell 2.1 percent and peer Adidas dropped nearly 1 percent after Nike warned of weak China demand and rising tariff pressure. <\/p>\n<p>DIY retailer Hornbach Holding tumbled 3 percent after reporting a 21 percent fall in Q3 adjusted profit. <\/p>\n<p>Biopharmaceutical company Ipsen lost 2.2 percent after a pivotal Phase II FALKON study evaluating fidrisertib in patients with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) failed to meet its primary endpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Capita rose about 1 percent after its contact center <span class=\"landLinks\">business<\/span> within Capita Experience secured a four-year contract renewal with a major European telecommunications provider. <\/p>\n<p>Travel retailer WH Smith declined 3 percent after missing annual profit expectations and cutting its headline profit forecast. <\/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 Muted; US PCE Data Eyed<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-12-19 09:08:05<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks were little changed on Friday, a day after the European Central Bank and Bank of England issued hawkish signals on the outlook for their rate paths. After November&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67872,"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-67871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67871","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=67871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/67872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}