{"id":68056,"date":"2025-12-24T14:39:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T14:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/12\/24\/european-markets-close-flat-after-lackluster-session\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T14:39:26","slug":"european-markets-close-flat-after-lackluster-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/12\/24\/european-markets-close-flat-after-lackluster-session\/","title":{"rendered":"European Markets Close Flat After Lackluster Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> European <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> ended Wednesday&#8217;s shortened trading session on a flat note. However, with several markets to remain closed on Thursday and Friday for Christmas and Boxing Day holidays, trading volumes were quite thin, and movements somewhat lackluster.<\/p>\n<p>Markets in Germany, France, the U.K., and Switzerland will remain shut on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The pan European Stoxx 600 ended down 0.01%. U.K.&#8217;s FTSE 100 crept up 0.03% and France&#8217;s CAC 40 settled flat. The markets in Germany and Switzerland remained shut.<\/p>\n<p>In the French market, Kering climbed 1.1%. Eurofins Scientific, LVMH, Hermes International, ArcelorMittal, Carrefour and L&#8217;Oreal gained 0.3 to 0.9%.<\/p>\n<p>Edenred drifted down 1.3%. Dassault Systemes, TotalEnergies, Accor, Safran, Engie and Sanofi lost 0.3 to 0.45%.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK market, Schroders climbed 1.8% Pershing Square Holdings, Persimmon, Melrose Industries, Metlen Energy &amp; Metals, Entain, F&amp;C Investment Trust and Anglo American gained 0.6 to 1.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Games Workshop and Fresnillo both ended lower by about 1.4%. Rolls-Royce Holdings ended nearly 1% down.<\/p>\n<p>Admiral Group, Burberry Group, The Sage Group, Auto Trader Group and IAG closed weak by 0.6 to 1%. <\/p>\n<p>Lloyds Banking Group shed 0.4% on huge volumes. The counter clocked a volume over 24.3 million shares today. <\/p>\n<\/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 Markets Close Flat After Lackluster Session<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-12-24 14:39:26<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European markets ended Wednesday&#8217;s shortened trading session on a flat note. However, with several markets to remain closed on Thursday and Friday for Christmas and Boxing Day holidays, trading volumes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68057,"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-68056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68056","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=68056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}