European stock markets ended the trading session mixed today, but ended a second straight week of gains, boosted by gains in technology companies and luxury goods makers, reports CBS.
The London Stock Exchange’s FTSE 100 index fell 29.11 points, or 0.35 percent, to 8,356.02.
In Frankfurt, the DAX rose 74.62 points, or 0.38 percent, to 19,658.01.
Paris’ CAC 40 rose 28.01 points, or 0.37 percent, to 7,611.74.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 rose 0.19 percent, with most regional bourses and the majority of sectors in the green. The index closes with gains for the second week in a row.
The most serious rise was in technology stocks, adding 1.98 percent, followed by the papers of mining companies, growing by 1.56 percent.
The shares of companies from the luxury sector also rose in price, with the owner of Gucci, Kering, closing the session with a growth of 3.35 percent, and in daily trading at times its shares exceeded a growth of 5 percent, it is written BTA.