{"id":283991,"date":"2019-07-23T07:18:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=283991"},"modified":"2019-07-23T07:19:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:19:38","slug":"european-stocks-gain-as-oil-jumps-on-west-asia-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/european-stocks-gain-as-oil-jumps-on-west-asia-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"European stocks gain as oil jumps on West Asia tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks struggled higher on Monday, shrugging off dialled-down expectations for a big US rate cut this month, while escalating tensions in West Asia boosted safe-haven assets and oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>MSCI&#8217;s broad index of world stocks slipped 0.2 per cent, pulling further away from the near-year-and-a-half high reached earlier in June after falls in much of Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Europe&#8217;s regional STOXX 600 index gained 0.1 per cent, Germany&#8217;s DAX and France&#8217;s CAC rose 0.3 per cent and Britain&#8217;s FTSE jumped 0.5 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Energy stocks booked the largest gains in Europe after crude oil prices jumped at least $1 per barrel, on concern that Iran&#8217;s seizure of a British tanker last week may lead to disruptions in West Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks struggled higher on Monday, shrugging off dialled-down expectations for a big US rate cut this month, while escalating tensions in West Asia boosted safe-haven assets and oil prices. MSCI&#8217;s broad index of world stocks slipped 0.2 per cent, pulling further away from the near-year-and-a-half high reached earlier in June after falls in much of Asia. Europe&#8217;s regional STOXX 600 index gained 0.1 per cent, Germany&#8217;s DAX and France&#8217;s CAC rose 0.3 per cent and Britain&#8217;s FTSE jumped 0.5 per cent. Energy stocks booked the largest gains in Europe after crude oil prices jumped at least $1 per barrel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}