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    European shares trudge higher as stimulus wave stems selloff

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    The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 3 per cent at 0802 GMT, but still set for its worst month since 1987.

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    Travel and leisure stocks, which have posted some of the heaviest losses this month, were up 2.6 per cent in early trading.
    European shares attempted another rebound on Tuesday after slumping in the previous session, as a fresh round of monetary and fiscal stimulus offered some relief even as the coronavirus pandemic spreads rapidly across the globe.

    The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 3 per cent at 0802 GMT, but still set for its worst month since 1987 as the health crisis threatened to crimp global growth, with some analysts seeing a 24 per cent fall in European GDP in the second quarter.

    Although investors have largely shrugged off macroeconomic data so far, all eyes will now be on a flash reading of activity surveys from the euro zone due later in the day for signs of the extent of the economic damage from the outbreak.

    Travel and leisure stocks, which have posted some of the heaviest losses this month, were up 2.6 per cent in early trading.

    Miners, insurers and oil and gas stocks were the biggest gainers among the major European subsectors, rising between 5 per cent and 6 per cent.

    France's Biomérieux jumped 30 per cent after the healthcare company won approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for its product aimed at testing for coronavirus.



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