By Barbara Kollmeyer
MADRID (MarketWatch) -- Losses for European stocks widened on Thursday, as data showed that weekly U.S. jobless claims rose by 12,000 to 465,000, following two straight weeks of declines. The Stoxx Europe 600 index (ST:SXXP 258.87, -2.32, -0.89%) fell 1% to 258.68 and the German DAX -30 index (DX:DAX 6,145, -63.71, -1.03%) lost 1.1% to 6,139. 50. The CAC-40 index (FR:PX1 3,678, -56.56, -1.51%) fell 1.7% to 3,672.71 and the FTSE 100 (UK:UKX 5,484, -67.75, -1.22%) fell 1.2% to 5,485.14. Markets were already weak after sluggish data from the euro zone, while rising cost of sovereign debt for peripheral European countries also gave investors the jitters. |
