European shares slip for the second consecutive session, ahead of central bank meeting minutes

Economies.com
2016-10-06 11:04AM UTC

European stocks fell during morning trading on Thursday, extending losses for the second straight session, with low sentiment after the news of the ECB discussing reducing the bond-buying program stimulating for the economy in the near future, and in order to make sure of this news investors later in the day watching the last meeting minutes of the Central Bank .

 

 

The Dow Jones Stoxx Europe 600 index fell 0.2 percent by 10:39 pm GMT, the index closed yesterday's session down 0.6 percent, the first loss in six days, due to tightening of monetary policy in the euro zone concerns.

 

 

By 11:30 GMT issued last meeting minutes of the Central Bank of Europe , and investors are looking through the details of the meeting on assurances about the study of the bank to end its bond buying program.

 

 

Bloomberg said on Tuesday that the Central Bank of Europe, thinks of monetary policy tightening in light of the recovery of the eurozone economy, and tends to reduce the bond purchase program gradually before the end of the program in March 2017.

 

 

Futures for the S & P 500 fell 0.2 percent, and the index closed yesterday's session on Wall Street, up by 0.4 percent, the first gain in three sessions with the support of the energy sector gains, in addition to the release of strong data on the US economy reinforced the breadth of its growth signs during Third quarter.

 

 

As for the most important European markets indices euros Stoke 50 index fell 0.2 percent, and France's CAC 40 index down 0.4 percent, and in London FTSE 100 lost 0.2 percent, and in Germany's DAX index fell 0.3 percent.

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