{"id":79866,"date":"2026-10-28T17:28:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/10\/28\/major-european-markets-close-flat-as-investors-react-to-earnings-ahead-of-fed-policy\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T17:28:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:28:43","slug":"major-european-markets-close-flat-as-investors-react-to-earnings-ahead-of-fed-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/10\/28\/major-european-markets-close-flat-as-investors-react-to-earnings-ahead-of-fed-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Major European Markets Close Flat As Investors React To Earnings Ahead Of Fed Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> European stocks turned in a mixed performance on Wednesday as investors reacted to a slew of corporate earnings announcements and looked ahead to the monetary policy announcement from the Federal Reserve later in the day. <\/p>\n<p>A sharp rise in oil prices rendered the mood a bit cautious.<\/p>\n<p>The European Central Bank is scheduled to announce its monetary policy on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fade-paragraph\">The pan European Stoxx 600 ended down by 0.23%. The U.K.&#8217;s FTSE 100 drifted lower by 0.3%, Germany&#8217;s DAX edged down 0.08% and France&#8217;s CAC 40 crept up 0.07%. Switzerland&#8217;s SMI settled lower by 0.11%.<\/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<p>Market Analysis<\/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 \/>Major European Markets Close Flat As Investors React To Earnings Ahead Of Fed Policy<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-10-28 17:28:43<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks turned in a mixed performance on Wednesday as investors reacted to a slew of corporate earnings announcements and looked ahead to the monetary policy announcement from the Federal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79866","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=79866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}