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BARC Barclays Plc

184.92
3.40 (1.87%)
Last Updated: 13:56:07
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Barclays Plc LSE:BARC London Ordinary Share GB0031348658 ORD 25P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  3.40 1.87% 184.92 184.92 184.96 185.34 182.82 183.32 14,843,614 13:56:07
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
Commercial Banks, Nec 25.38B 5.26B 0.3470 5.31 27.9B

EUROPE MARKETS: European Stocks Fall; RBS, Volvo Among Decliners

18/07/2014 11:50pm

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By Sara Sjolin, MarketWatch

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European stock markets traded broadly lower on Friday, spurred by geopolitical concerns after a Malaysia Airlines jet was shot down over Ukraine and Israel sent ground troops into Gaza.

The Stoxx Europe 600 index lost 0.2% to 338.92, adding to a 0.9% decline from Thursday. On the week, the benchmark was on track for a 0.6% advance.

Russia's MICEX index dropped 2% to 1,412.11, on track for a fifth straight day in the red. Read: Russian stocks slide after MH17 crash

The losses came after a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet en route to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam was downed over eastern Ukraine by a surface-to-air missile on Thursday, killing all everyone on board. Both Ukraine and Russia deny responsibility and blame each other for the tragedy.

U.S. intelligence agencies were divided over whether the missile was launched by the Russian military or the militants, but an official said "all roads lead to the Russians to some degree."

Pro-Russian separatists claimed on Thursday they had retrieved the black box from the crash site and said evidence of the incident would be sent to Moscow for examination. On Friday, an international emergency crew at the site recovered a second flight recorder from the plane, according to media reports.

"It's going to be a nervous time ahead while we await further developments, but this feels like a big geopolitical blow for financial markets," analysts at Deutsche Bank said in a note.

Also on Thursday, after the European markets closed, Israeli military forces launched a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip aimed at crushing Hamas militants.

Europe movers

The geopolitical jitters weighed on the majority of Europe's country-specific indexes. Germany's DAX 30 index gave up 0.6% to 9,696.06, although France's CAC 40 index was slightly higher at 4,317.85. The U.K.'s FTSE 100 index lost 0.1% to 6,734.01.

Banks were in focus in London after the U.K. antitrust authority said there should be an in-depth investigations into the competition in the country's banking market. The U.K retail and business banking is dominated by four banks: Lloyds Banking Group PLC (LYG), down 0.3%, Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS), off 1.6%, HSBC Holdings PLC (HSBC) , flat, and Barclays PLC (BCS), 0.2% higher.

Elsewhere, Volvo AB shares slumped 5.4% after the Swedish truck maker said European demand isn't recovering as fast as expected and that order intake dropped 6% in the second quarter.

Most airline sharesx declined in the wake of the MH17 crash, with Air France-KLM SA down 1.2%, Deutsche Lufthansa AG 1.3% lower and easyJet PLC off 0.2%.

Daimler AG gave up 2.3% after Credit Suisse downgraded the German car maker to neutral from outperform.

Shares of LM Ericsson Telefon AB jumped 8.2% after the mobile-network company reported second-quarter earnings that beat expectations.

Shares of Shire PLC climbed 3.2% after U.S. drug maker AbbVie Inc. (ABBV) confirmed it will buy the Irish pharmaceutical firm in a deal valued at $54 billion.

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