* STOXX 600 down 5.7% for the week
* Travel and leisure stocks the worst weekly performers,
down 11%
* France's Interparfums jumps on deal with Moncler
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By Sruthi Shankar and Ambar Warrick
June 12 (Reuters) - European shares closed slightly up on
Friday after heavy losses in the previous session, but marked
their worst week since the peak of the coronavirus sell-off due
to persistent concerns over the pace of an economic recovery.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index .STOXX ended 0.3% higher,
after clocking its worst single-day loss since March 23 in the
previous session.
The index has lost about 5.7% for the week, with travel and
leisure stocks .SXTP the worst performers as fears of a second
wave of coronavirus infections in the United States rattled
sentiment.
Markets had come off three-month highs through the week,
with the sell-off intensifying on Thursday after the U.S.
Federal Reserve pointed to a long road to economic recovery for
the world's largest economy.
"You have run up for so long, the market is looking for an
excuse to pause," said Neela Gollapudi, head of portfolio
management and research at GenTrust.
"Fed's Powell said we are not going to have a V-shaped
recovery, and the markets were priced to perfection in terms of
how quickly things are going to turn around."
On the day, battered shares of automakers .SXAP , basic
resources .SXPP and real estate companies .SX86P rose
between 1.4% and 2%.
Royal Dutch Shell RDSa.L , BP BP.L and Total TOTF.PA
rose between around 0.6% and 1.7%, despite a drop in oil prices.
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Data also showed that euro zone industrial output fell the
most on record in April as lockdowns halted activity across the
region, with analysts pointing to an arduous recovery for the
sector. "As restrictions on industry have been gradually lifted
since late April, expectations are that May will be the start of
a drawn-out recovery of output," wrote Bert Colijn, Senior
Economist, Eurozone, at ING. "It could be a long road ahead
before industry reaches output seen at the start of 2020."
Italian stocks .FTMIB rose 0.4% on the day. Italian
Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri said on Friday that the
country's economic contraction this year may be slightly worse
than the 8% decline currently forecast by the government.
France's Interparfums IPAR.PA surged 13.3% after Italy's
Moncler MONC.MI entered an agreement with the company to start
selling perfumes. Italian infrastructure group Atlantia ATL.MI gained 3.9%
as said it hoped for a positive solution to its row with the
transport ministry over its motorway concession. The company
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