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UPDATE 2-European shares take a breather, ease off four-year peak

Published 19/11/2019, 18:30
Updated 19/11/2019, 18:30
© Reuters.  UPDATE 2-European shares take a breather, ease off four-year peak

© Reuters. UPDATE 2-European shares take a breather, ease off four-year peak

* STOXX 600 about 2% below record high
* SES SA plunges after FCC Chairman 5G auction statement
* EasyJet jumps on posting FY profit on top end of targets

(Recasts, updates to close, changes quote)
By Agamoni Ghosh and Medha Singh
Nov 19 (Reuters) - European stocks reversed course to close
lower in a choppy session on Tuesday as lack of clarity on the
progress of trade talks between Washington and Beijing kept
investors from making bold bets.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index .STOXX rose 0.5% to its
highest level since July 2015 in morning trade but pared gains
to closer marginally lower tracking Wall Street's retreat from
record highs in early U.S. session.
Reports indicated on Monday that Beijing was pessimistic
about the prospects of sealing a trade pact with Washington
sending markets in a tizzy.
Some relief however, came after the Trump administration
issued a new 90-day extension allowing U.S.companies to continue
doing business with China's Huawei Technologies, whose
blacklisting by Washington has been a bone of contention in the
trade saga.
"There is a lot of trade optimism priced in despite the
mixed signals," said Craig Erlam, market analyst at Oanda,
London. "It's just some consolidation of gains at this point as
we have had a very strong run."
Strength in defensive plays like utilities .SX6P and
telecoms .SXKP that investors had taken refuge in through the
previous session, started to wear out with both sectors down
between 0.4% and 0.9%.
The media sector .SXMP was among the weak spots due to a
23% slide for Luxemburg-based satellite provider SES SESFd.PA
after the Federal Communications Commission chairman backed a
public, rather than private auction of spectrum for
next-generation 5G wireless networks.
Macro-driven travel & leisure .SXTP led sub-sector gains
powered by a 5% jump in shares of Britain's easyJet EZJ.L
after it posted full-year profit towards the top end of
expectations.
Automakers .SXAP rebounded from their worst session in
more than a month as data showed passenger car registrations in
Europe rose to their highest since 2009 in October. Miners .SXPP and industrials .SXNP gained 0.4% each.
Among individual movers, Halma Plc HLMA.L led gains on the
STOXX 600 as well as the FTSE 100 .FTSE after the British
safety equipment maker posted upbeat first-half results.
AFTER RECORD HIGHS
A recent rally that has pushed the index to its four-year
peak has been led in part by positive cues on U.S.-China trade
talks and better-than-feared third quarter corporate results.
The STOXX 600 is about 2% away from reclaiming its all-time
highs, hit last in April 2015.
However, analysts suggest caution as previously when the
European benchmark surged in 2000, 2007 and 2015 to record
levels above the 400 points threshold, a significant correction
took place in the following several weeks.


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