{"id":75609,"date":"2026-07-09T17:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/07\/09\/european-stocks-close-higher-despite-geopolitical-tensions\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:42:10","slug":"european-stocks-close-higher-despite-geopolitical-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/07\/09\/european-stocks-close-higher-despite-geopolitical-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"European Stocks Close Higher Despite Geopolitical Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> European stocks closed mostly higher on Thursday even as the UK market underperformed and ended slightly weak despite a fine performance by mining and financial sectors. <\/p>\n<p>Despite concerns about the ongoing conflict between the U.S. and Iran, the undertone in the <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> remained reasonably firm, with investors looking ahead to corporate earnings updates and economic data in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fade-paragraph\">Renewed optimism over artificial intelligence, and U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s comments that the flare-up in tensions in the Middle East will end very quickly aided sentiment.<\/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 available exclusively to RTT Biotech Investor and Intelligent Investor subscribers. Subscribe with a RTTNews subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Start Free Trial<\/p>\n<p>FREE 7-Day Trial &#8211; No Payment Required<\/p>\n<\/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 Stocks Close Higher Despite Geopolitical Tensions<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-07-09 17:42:10<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks closed mostly higher on Thursday even as the UK market underperformed and ended slightly weak despite a fine performance by mining and financial sectors. Despite concerns about the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75609","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=75609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/75610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}