European stocks accelerate gains

04 Jan, 2019

FRANKFURT AM MAIN: Gains on Europe's major stock exchanges accelerated Friday after the head of the Federal Reserve signaled that the US central bank was no longer fixed on a course of rising interest rates.

Around 1630 GMT Frankfurt was up 3.1 percent at 10,739.17 points, followed by a 2.5 percent gain for Paris to 4,725.88 and a 2.2 percent increase in London to 6,839.47.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Press), 2019
 

 

 

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