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Paris stock exchange gains three percent

Published June 20, 2016 Updated June 20, 2016 07:54am

PARIS: Paris stocks surged in early trading Monday, with the key CAC-40 index gaining over three percent after polls suggested the Remain camp was ahead in the upcoming British referendum on EU membership

At 0720 GMT, the CAC stood 2.9 percent higher, having earlier briefly posted gains of just over three percent compared with Friday's close.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2016