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Shares in Zodiac Aerospace slumped nearly 10 percent after the aerospace supplier posting a 44.6 percent drop in core annual earnings in the wake of production delays at its troubled aircraft seats division.
Kingfisher fell about 3 percent after Europe's largest home improvement retailer missed forecasts with a 6.6 percent fall in third-quarter profit.
Altice dropped 5 percent as Next Alt, Patrick Drahi's personal holding, said it wanted to exercise a right to sell 7.5 percent of Altice's shares.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index was down 0.9 percent at 1,487.17 points by 0815 GMT after hitting a one-week low. It closed 0.3 percent lower in the previous session.