{"id":72992,"date":"2026-05-05T17:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/05\/05\/european-markets-close-higher-weak-hsbc-results-hurt-uk-market\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:56:32","slug":"european-markets-close-higher-weak-hsbc-results-hurt-uk-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/05\/05\/european-markets-close-higher-weak-hsbc-results-hurt-uk-market\/","title":{"rendered":"European Markets Close Higher; Weak HSBC Results Hurt UK Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> European stocks closed higher on Tuesday as oil prices fell sharply after U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the ceasefire holds at present despite Iranian attacks against the United Arab Emirates. Investors also digested a slew of earnings updates from European companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fade-paragraph\">&#8220;Ultimately the President is going to make a decision whether anything were to escalate into a violation of a ceasefire,&#8221; Hegseth said. &#8220;Right now, the ceasefire certainly holds but we&#8217;re going to be watching very, very closely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall-wrapper\">\n<p><i class=\"bi bi-lock-fill\"\/> Subscribe to continue reading the article.<\/p>\n<p>This article is part of our premium content offering.Subscribe with a RTTNews subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe Now<\/p><\/div>\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 Markets Close Higher; Weak HSBC Results Hurt UK Market<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-05-05 17:56:32<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks closed higher on Tuesday as oil prices fell sharply after U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the ceasefire holds at present despite Iranian attacks against the United&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72992","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=72992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/72993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}