LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European shares fell in early trading on Thursday, with mineral extractors giving back some of the previous session's strong gains as shares in BHP Billiton fell 3.7%. On the plus side, oil firm Tullow Oil shot up 8.3% after it said that it expects to see material upgrades to resource estimates. The U.K. FTSE 100 index fell 0.1% to 4,361.12, the German DAX 30 index lost 0.3% to 4,789.79 and the French CAC-40 index dipped 0.2% to 3,312.74.
