{"id":69970,"date":"2026-02-16T08:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/16\/european-shares-edge-higher-in-thin-trade\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:35:43","slug":"european-shares-edge-higher-in-thin-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/16\/european-shares-edge-higher-in-thin-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"European Shares Edge Higher In Thin Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> European stocks edged higher on Monday, though trading volumes remained thin amid a holiday in the United States for Presidents&#8217; Day.<\/p>\n<p>The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 0.2 percent at 618.90 ahead of Eurozone industrial output data due later in the day. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, data from property website Rightmove showed British house price growth stalled in February after the strongest increase in over a decade the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>The German DAX gained 0.3 percent, France&#8217;s CAC 40 edged up by 0.1 percent and the U.K.&#8217;s FTSE 100 was up 0.2 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Sanofi was moving higher in Paris after Beyfortus study showed benefit beyond first RSV season. <\/p>\n<p>Multi-asset trading platform Plus500 added 1.5 percent in London after announcing a new share buyback program valued at up to $100 million. <\/p>\n<p>Automaker Renault as well as mining giants Glencore and Anglo American all fell around 1 percent ahead of their earnings results due this week. <\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen was slightly higher on reports it plans to cut costs by 20 percent across all brands by the end of 2028. <\/p>\n<\/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 Edge Higher In Thin Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-02-16 08:35:43<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks edged higher on Monday, though trading volumes remained thin amid a holiday in the United States for Presidents&#8217; Day. The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 0.2 percent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-euro-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69970","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=69970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/69971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}