European markets expected to open in negative territory ahead of short trading week

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LONDON — European markets are expected to unfastened successful antagonistic territory connected Monday arsenic past week's affirmative sentiment wears off.

The U.K.'s FTSE 100 is expected to unfastened 0.1% lower, Germany's DAX is seen 0.17% lower, and the French CAC scale is seen 0.3% lower, according to information from IG Group.

It follows a record-breaking erstwhile league wherever Europe's benchmark Stoxx 600 scale deed a caller intraday precocious of 588.07 points, as investors digested a swathe of involvement complaint decisions.

The U.S. and U.K. presidents had a telephone telephone connected Sunday, wherever they discussed Ukraine and Gaza, arsenic attempts to broker a bid woody betwixt Russia and Ukraine march on.

European and Ukrainian negotiators person made changes to the U.S.-drafted bid woody connection that was leaked to the media past month, but a Kremlin argumentation adjutant said connected Sunday that they "definitely bash not amended the papers and bash not amended the anticipation of achieving semipermanent peace." European and Ukrainian leaders were acrophobic the connection skewed successful Russia's favour and Kyiv would beryllium pressured into conceding excessively much. The warfare is present nearing 4 years.

Elsewhere, successful the backstage market, accelerated manner behemoth Shien escaped a three-month prohibition successful France for selling child-like enactment dolls aft a tribunal ruled successful its favour successful a lawsuit against the French authorities connected Friday. Shein indispensable instrumentality property verification connected its site, the tribunal ordered. The authorities said it volition entreaty the decision.

There are nary large information releases today, though U.K. GDP and concern business figures are acceptable to beryllium confirmed aft erstwhile preliminary releases.

Asia-Pacific markets climbed connected Monday arsenic investors parsed China's cardinal bank's determination to support its indebtedness premier rates steady. The People's Bank of China kept its 1-year and 5-year indebtedness premier rates unchanged astatine 3% and 3.5% respectively, holding them for a seventh consecutive meeting, successful enactment with a Reuters survey.

Stateside, banal futures roseate connected Sunday nighttime arsenic traders deliberate whether tech tin regain its footing earlier the year's extremity pursuing a late-week surge that lifted the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite last week.

— CNBC's Lee Ying Shan contributed to this report.

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