{"id":43784,"date":"2021-04-01T12:33:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T08:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=43784"},"modified":"2021-04-01T12:33:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T08:33:04","slug":"european-stocks-enter-a-new-quarter-with-limited-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/european-stocks-enter-a-new-quarter-with-limited-gains\/04\/01\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"European Stocks Enter a New Quarter With Limited Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>European stocks began the new quarter with limited gains Thursday, April 1, as concerns about another wave of Covid-19, with France imposing a third lockdown measure, overshadowed optimism about a new spending plan for the US government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The European Stoxx600 index rose 0.2% in early trade, hovering three points below its all-time high. The benchmark index ended Q1 with an increase of 7.7%, posting gains for the fourth consecutive quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>European chip companies including rose between 1.8% and 4.4% after US Micron Technology issued an optimistic earnings forecast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, chipmaker TSMC said it plans to invest $100 billion over the next three years to increase production capacity at its factories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shares of retail and travel companies in France have come under pressure after the latest lockdown measures. Shares in French group Accor Hotels rose 0.3%, while foodservice companies Sodexo and Elior declined nearly 2%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks began the new quarter with limited gains Thursday, April 1, as concerns about another wave of Covid-19, with France imposing a third lockdown measure, overshadowed optimism about a new spending plan for the US government. The European Stoxx600 index rose 0.2% in early trade, hovering three points below its all-time high. The benchmark &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":31146,"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-43784","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\/43784","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=43784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43785,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43784\/revisions\/43785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}