Stoxx 600 Rises 0.5% as UK Inflation Misses at 2.8%

6 articles · Updated · CNBC · May 20

By 11:45 a.m. London time, the pan-European Stoxx 600 was up more than 0.5%, with miners and tech stocks leading gains while retail and media lagged.
The advance came as investors weighed a softer-than-expected U.K. inflation reading of 2.8% for April, below the 3% Reuters poll and down from 3.3% in March.
That data pushed the pound slightly lower against the dollar and euro, while the 10-year gilt yield fell 5 basis points to 5.075%.
Bond markets remained a constraint more broadly: the U.S. 30-year Treasury yield topped 5.19%—its highest since 2007—and the 10-year approached 4.69%.
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