European markets head for higher open as traders track Greenland, Iran news

LONDON — European stocks are expected to unfastened broadly higher Thursday arsenic traders digest the latest geopolitical quality astir Greenland and Iran.

The U.K.'s FTSE scale is seen opening 0.6% higher, Germany's DAX up 0.18%, France's CAC 40 up 0.2%, and Italy's FTSE MIB o.34% higher, according to information from IG.

Regional investors volition beryllium assessing the result of a high-stakes gathering betwixt elder officials from the U.S., Denmark and Greenland connected Wednesday to sermon the ownership of the Arctic island.

U.S. President Donald Trump's sees the semi-autonomous Danish territory arsenic captious for nationalist information and has threatened to prehend it by force, if necessary.

A gathering astatine the White House betwixt officials from Greenland, Denmark, and the U.S. Wednesday ended with "fundamental disagreement" over the ownership of the island, a Danish authoritative said pursuing the meeting, but that some sides would proceed to talk.

Ahead of the talks, Trump doubled down connected acquiring the territory, stating connected societal media that thing little than Greenland becoming a portion of the United States was "unacceptable."

Iran is besides being intimately watched aft Trump threatened subject enactment against the Islamic Republic if it executed protestors arrested during a convulsive crackdown connected demonstrations astir the country.

Trump appeared to soften his code Wednesday night, however, saying helium had been assured that executions had stopped and that helium would "watch it and see" regarding imaginable subject action. Iran reopened its airspace aboriginal Thursday aft a impermanent closure barred astir incoming and outgoing flights.

Earnings travel from Richemont connected Thursday, and information releases see U.K. GDP information for November, Spanish and French ostentation figures, and EU commercialized equilibrium data.