City workers in the La Defense business district of Paris, France, on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — European stocks moved higher on Friday, as international relations and corporate earnings remained in focus. By 9:08 a.m. in London (4:08 a.m. ET), the pan-European Stoxx 600 was around 0.5%…
This report is from this week’s CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. The dispatch A new year brings with it optimism for the coming 12 months The main hope for the U.K. must be that 2026 proves to be better — for the economy, households and individual businesses — than…
A trader wears “2026” glasses on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images May this year prove as lucrative as 2025, when the S&P 500 rallied 16.39% mostly on the back of enthusiasm over artificial intelligence, though…
London’s benchmark FTSE 100 index crossed the 10,000-point mark for the first time on Friday, scaling a fresh all-time high on the opening trading day of 2026, extending the strong momentum built over the past year.In early deals, the UK’s top-tier index — home to heavyweights such as BP, Vodafone and HSBC — rose 1.0…
European markets were set to open slightly higher on Friday, kicking off the first trading day of the year in positive territory. The U.K.’s FTSE 100 index was on track to open up around 0.2%, according to IG, with Germany’s DAX, France’s CAC and Italy’s FTSE MIB also poised to open at least 0.2% higher….