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Nov 11 (Reuters) - European shares slipped on Monday as
fresh round of protests in Hong Kong, worrying data from China
and Moody's warning on Britain's sovereign debt made for a
gloomy start to the week.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index .STOXX fell 0.2% by 0817
GMT, with London's FTSE 100 .FTSE leading declines among the
major regional indices with a 0.6% fall.
Ratings firm Moody's warned on Friday it might cut its
rating on Britain's sovereign debt again, saying that neither of
the main political parties in next month's election was likely
to tackle high borrowing levels which Brexit had made even
harder to fix. Investors awaited a batch of UK data including third-quarter
gross domestic product (GDP) as well as industrial output
numbers for September.
Trade-sensitive German shares .GDAXI slid 0.3% after data
from China's biggest auto industry association showed auto sales
fell 4% in October from a year earlier. Europe's auto index .SXAP fell 0.5%.
Top gainer on the STOXX 600 was British baker and takeaway
food group Greggs GRG.L , which jumped 10.6% after forecasting
a 2019 pretax profit ahead of previous expectations.