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U.K. market’s equity index FTSE 100 drifted lower Monday morning, in line with other major markets<\/span> in Europe, amid rising geopolitical tensions following U.S. President Donald Trump’s desire to take Greenland.<\/p>\n

Trump today doubled down on his plan to acquire Greenland, saying NATO had warned Denmark for years about the “Russian threat” to Greenland and claimed Copenhagen had failed to act.<\/p>\n

“Now it is time, and it will be done!!!” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform ahead of this week’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos.<\/p>\n

The U.S. President’s announcement of a 10% tariff on several EU countries from next month, which raises the tariff on all imports to US to 25%, and reports that EU is consideriang retaliatory move against the U.S. weighed on stocks.<\/p>\n

The EU is reported to be considering tariffs of 93 billion euros of US goods or restricting US firms’ access to its internal market.<\/p>\n

The FTSE 100 dropped to 10,163.80 this morning, and was down 62.54 points or 0.61% at 10,172.75 a little while ago.<\/p>\n

Diploma slid nearly 4%, Convatec Group drifted down nearly 3%, while Burberry Group, Spirax Group, Natwest, Croda International, Howeden Joinery, St. James’s Place, Halma, Intecontinental Hotels Group, Barclays, Diageon, Games Workshop and ICG lost 2 to 1.8%.<\/p>\n

Smith & Nephew, Ashtead Group, Informa, Schroders, Pearson, Smiths Group, Lloyds Banking Group, Relx and Melrose Industries also declined sharply.<\/p>\n

Shares of mining companies found some support. Fresnillo surged more than 4% and Endeavour Mining gained 1.8%, while Antofagasta advanced by 0.7%.<\/p>\n

BT Group, British American Tobacco, Severn Trent, Imperial Brands, Babcock International, Sainsbury (J), Vodafone Group, Whitbread, BAE Systems and Tesco gained 0.8 to 1.7%.<\/p>\n

In European economic news, Eurozone inflation eased more than initially estimated in December, final data from Eurostat showed. <\/p>\n

The harmonized index of consumer prices rose by revised 1.9% year-on-year following an increase of 2.1% in each of the previous two months.<\/p>\n

Eurostat initially reported that inflation hit the 2% target in December.<\/p>\n

Core inflation, which excludes prices of energy and fresh food, slowed to 2.3%, in line with estimate, from 2.4% logged in the previous three months.<\/p>\n

Energy prices decreased 1.9% year-on-year after a 0.5% drop in the previous month. The decline was the worst since August when they fell 2%. Services inflation softened marginally to 3.4% from 3.5%.<\/p>\n

The HICP rose 0.2% month-on-month in December, in line with the initial estimate released on January 7. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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