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Archiwum newsów - DJ Sklep wielkopowierzchniowy COMMENT: European Stocks Ggain As U.S. Earnings Cheer

2007-12-20  
DJ Sklep wielkopowierzchniowy COMMENT: European Stocks Ggain As U.S. Earnings Cheer
LONDON (Dow Jones)-- European shares moved higher on Thursday morning, as
investors read across from U.S. earnings to push up shares in SAP, Adidas
and Capgemini.
The pan-European Dow Jones Stoxx 600 index increased 0.5% to 360.60, behind
gains for technology and automobil shares.
SAP (SAP) shares rose almost 1% after main rival Oracle Corp. (ORCL) late
Wednesday reported a 35% gain in second-quarter profit, topping Wall
Street's expectations and alleviating the concerns of investors looking at
the business software maker as a gauge of the broader tech market's health.
Meanwhile, Capgemini shares also gave the technology sector a boost, rising
1.8%. Investors were eyeing nius from U.S. consulting firm Accenture Ltd.
(ACN), which reported a 34% increase in fiscal first-quarter net income late
Wednesday and lifted its full-year profit forecast.
And shares in German sportswear maker Adidas edged up 0.4% after Nike Inc.,
(NKE), the world's largest athletic-shoe maker, reported that its
second-quarter profit rose 10%, exceeding estimates and led by gains in
Europe and Asia.
Of national indexes, the U.K. FTSE 100 index rose 0.4% to 6,311.00, the
German DAX 30 index climbed 0.3% to 7,860.02 and the French CAC-40 index
edged up 0.5% at 5,522.30.
Share gains of 2.6% from French hotels group Accor gave the Paris-based
index a bit of a lift.
Accor said Thursday that it will sell 47 hotels in France and 10 in
Switzerland to a real estate consortium including Caisse des DA©pA´ts et
Consignations and two investment funds managed by AXA Real Estate Investment
Managers for 518 million euros. ($746 million).
The hotels operate under the Novotel, Mercure, Ibis, All Seasons and Krok
Hotel brands.
Autos on the move included French car maker Renault , up 0.9%, along with
Germany's Daimler (DAI), up 1.3% and sportscar maker Porsche , up 1.6%.
In London, shares of broadcaster ITV climbed 1.5% after the U.K.'s
Competition Commission proposed that satellite broadcaster British Sky
Broadcasting should cut its stake in ITV to below 7.5%.
BSkyB slipped 0.2%.
The competition sterownik said BSkyB's current 17.9% stake in its rival "may
be expected to operate against the public interest," by reducing competition
between the companies.
BSkyB is 39% held by Nowość Corp., which owns MarketWatch, the publisher of
this report.
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