City workers in the La Defense business district of Paris, France, on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. <\/p>\n
Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/p>\n
European markets turned positive after opening mixed on Tuesday, in a holiday-shortened trading week.<\/p>\n
The pan-European Stoxx 600<\/a> index edged 0.2% higher by 9:30 a.m. London time (4.30 a.m. ET) to break through 590 points \u2013 a new record.<\/p>\n The U.K.’s FTSE<\/a>, France’s CAC 40<\/a>, and Germany’s DAX<\/a> all traded about 0.2% higher, while Italy’s FTSE MIB<\/a> gained 0.7%.<\/p>\n Mining stocks topped the blue-chip index with Fresnillo<\/a> gaining 3.5%. Peer miners Anglo American<\/a>, Antofagasta<\/a>, and Glencore<\/a> rose between 2.6% and 1.8%. <\/p>\n Gains came as gold<\/a> and silver<\/a> futures were on the rise Tuesday morning as well. Gold edged up 1% to last trade at $4,386.30 an ounce while silver jumped 5.2% to $74.10 an ounce. Silver was on a rollercoaster ride Monday<\/a>, hitting a record in the early morning hours, before paring gains and logging its worst day since 2021.<\/p>\n Regional bourses closed mixed on Monday, with defense stocks struggling as talks continue to agree on a framework peace agreement to end the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n Asia-Pacific markets mostly fell overnight after the tech sell-off on Wall Street continued on Monday amid AI bubble fears.<\/p>\n Nvidia<\/a>\u00a0shares dropped more than 1% Monday stateside, giving back some of its more than 5% gain in last week’s trading session.\u00a0Palantir Technologies<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Meta Platforms<\/a>\u00a0also suffered losses, as did\u00a0Oracle<\/a>.<\/p>\n U.S. stocks were largely unchanged in premarket trading, with the big tech names making minimal moves. <\/p>\n There are no major earnings or data releases in Europe on Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Lim Hui Jie and Sarah Min contributed to this market report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City workers in the La Defense business district of Paris, France, on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. Nathan Laine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[103790,132874,4117,84,273,8380,8381,141,819,132873,2016,38362,59,145,132875,46803,479,467,132876,272,56,157,54,158,55,160],"class_list":["post-342593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-anglo-american-plc","tag-antofagasta-plc","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-cac-40-index","tag-dax","tag-donald-trump","tag-france","tag-fresnillo-plc","tag-ftse-100","tag-ftse-mib","tag-gb","tag-germany","tag-glencore-plc","tag-gold-comex-dec25","tag-italy","tag-markets","tag-silver-comex-sep25","tag-stoxx-600","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}