European shares ended steady today, as a boost from Anglo American's merger deal and higher oil prices managed to counter uncertainty in France after Prime Minister Francois Bayrou's ouster in a confidence vote.
The CAC in Paris was up 14 points (0.19%) to 7,749, while the DAX in Frankfurt was down 88 points (0.37%) to 23,718 and London's FTSE index was up 21 points (0.23%) to 9,242.
Dublin's ISEQ index was down 16 points (0.15%) to 11,419. Shares in AIB were up 1.65% to €7.41, while shares in Bank of Ireland were up 0.76% to €13.21. Meanwhile, shares in Kingspan were down 3.16% to €69.95, while shares in Glanbia were down 1.39% to €14.21.
Wall Street's main indexes were largely subdued today after closing near record highs in the previous session, while a downwards payrolls revision kept intact bets of interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. By 5.40pm Irish time, the Dow Jones was up 71 points (0.16%) to 45,586, while the S&P 500 was up two points (0.04%) to 6,497 and the Nasdaq was up four points (0.02%) to 21,803.
