European stocks traded lower on Thursday as markets reacted to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s announcement of 25% tariffs on European Union imports<\/strong>, escalating trade tensions between the two economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At 03:15 ET (08:15 GMT)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Investors are closely monitoring key economic data releases<\/strong> from the eurozone, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n These reports will provide insight into the region\u2019s economic resilience amid rising geopolitical and trade risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rolls-Royce (OTC: RYCEY) reported a 16% revenue increase to \u00a317.8 billion<\/strong> in 2024, significantly beating expectations. The company\u2019s operating profit hit \u00a32.5 billion<\/strong>, while free cash flow surged to \u00a32.4 billion<\/strong>, driven by a 23% jump in Civil Aerospace revenue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following the strong earnings, Rolls-Royce raised its 2025 financial forecasts<\/strong>, projecting operating profit and free cash flow 8% above market expectations<\/strong>. Shares in the company surged over 15% in early trading<\/strong>, with analysts noting that Rolls-Royce is on track to achieve its financial targets ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" European stocks traded lower on Thursday as markets reacted to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s announcement of 25% tariffs on European Union imports, escalating trade tensions between the two economies. Market Performance At 03:15 ET (08:15 GMT): Germany\u2019s DAX fell 1% France\u2019s CAC 40 slipped 0.3% UK\u2019s FTSE 100 remained unchanged Investors are closely monitoring key …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":70012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,36],"tags":[7211,6877,6928,6882],"class_list":["post-112339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-forex-markets","category-market-updates","tag-currencies","tag-dollar","tag-euro","tag-forex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112340,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112339\/revisions\/112340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Market Performance<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Rolls-Royce Surges on Strong Earnings<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n