London (AFP) - European stock markets rose Thursday before Easter holidays, benefiting from strong gains in U.S. after a rocky start to the week, said traders.
Benchmark FTSE 100 in London acquired 0.26% at 6,037.55 points in noon trade, DAX 30 Frankfurt grew up in 0.73% to 7,301.97 points and in Paris, the CAC 40 advanced 0.66% to 4,030.75.
The Stoxx 50 of the largest companies in the euro area index increased from 0.80% to 2,945.17 points.
"" European indices continued to trade positively... adding to the gains of two per cent of yesterday,"said Giles Watts, Chief of the actions of traders of the Index of the city."
"Better than expected that us gains in recent days company continues to support actions across Europe."
"Intel gains are the kick yesterday at the very optimistic session beginning and stellar earnings from Apple yesterday evening helped cement the feeling positive gains on the last two trading sessions.
Global stocks have rebounded strongly heavy losses earlier in the week when Standard & Poor downgraded its Outlook for U.S. debt, where frightened investors already concerned about the level of indebtedness in some countries of the euro area.
Gains U.S. continued to please Thursday, as us conglomerate General Electric has an increase in income better than expected, 80% for the first quarter to $ 3.36 billion.
In Europe, the top mobile phone manufacturer Nokia reported a decrease in smaller than expected net profit in the first quarter to 344 million euros (503 million dollars).
Shares of Nokia rose from 3.45% to EUR 6.14 at the beginning of negotiation afternoon on a Helsinki market at only 0.24 per cent.
Thursday figures are the first quarterly results to be published since Nokia Executive in February, Steven Elop said that the company would abandon its own operating system mobile for a designed by Microsoft.
Moreover, Fiat took a step forward Thursday to become one of the largest automakers in the world with a $ 1.3 billion (889-million-euro) deal to increase its stake in Chrysler to 46 per cent.
Investors welcomed the news, with prizes of the action of the Fiat stock exchange Milan arrow 3.80% to 6,825 euros.
Across the Atlantic, stocks we climbed on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones closing index three years highs on strong earnings reports beat Wall Street expectations, particularly in the technology sector.
After the start of the day with a bang to three figures, the Dow Jones index won 1.52% at the end of the session at 12,453.54 points - the highest level of closing for the index of blue chip since June 5, 2008.
Tokyo closed 0.82% higher Thursday market
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