{"id":43324,"date":"2021-03-23T23:21:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T19:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=43324"},"modified":"2021-03-23T23:21:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T19:21:45","slug":"european-stocks-close-mostly-lower-amid-lockdown-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/european-stocks-close-mostly-lower-amid-lockdown-worries\/03\/23\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"European Stocks Close Mostly Lower Amid Lockdown Worries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>European stocks showed a mixed performance on Tuesday as the continent enters into the third wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, which is leading to reintroducing lockdown measures in a number of countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pan-European STOXX 600 index closed lower by 0.12% at 423.65 points, as the auto sector decline by 2.5% following a recent upward trend that came on the back of positive expectations for the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The French CAC40 index finished lower by 0.39%, while the German index DAX rose marginally by 0.03%, following the decision of Chancellor Angela Merkel to extend lockdown to April 18, including during the Easter holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the UK, the FTSE100 index declined by 0.40%, despite data showing a surprise decline in the unemployment rate to 5% during the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks showed a mixed performance on Tuesday as the continent enters into the third wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, which is leading to reintroducing lockdown measures in a number of countries. The pan-European STOXX 600 index closed lower by 0.12% at 423.65 points, as the auto sector decline by 2.5% following a recent upward &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31994,"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":[39,36],"tags":[6864],"class_list":["post-43324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-global-stock-markets","category-market-updates","tag-european-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43324","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43325,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43324\/revisions\/43325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}