Forexpros – European stocks were mixed after the closing bell on Wednesday.
At the close of European trade, Germany’s DAX fell 0.33%, London’s FTSE 100 shed 0.15%, France’s CAC 40 climbed 0.52% and the EURO STOXX 50 was up 0.62%.
Earlier in the day, official data showed that consumer price inflation in the U.S. fell to a seasonally adjusted -0.1% last month, from 0.3% in the preceding month.
Analysts had expected CPI to remain unchanged at 0.0% last month.
Meanwhile, on Wall Street, equity markets were down after the open. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.44%; the S&P 500 index shed 0.39%, while the Nasdaq 100 index declined 0.51%.
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