{"id":549,"date":"2026-05-11T08:50:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:50:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:50:05","slug":"european-shares-tepid-as-markets-weigh-us-iran-deadlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"European shares tepid as markets weigh US-Iran deadlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>European shares were muted on Monday, as stalled U.S.-Iran peace negotiations pushed oil prices higher and weighed on risk appetite.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pan-European STOXX 600 was flat at 611.67 points, as of 0703 GMT. Regional bourses moved in different directions, with London\u2019s FTSE 100 adding 0.2%, while France\u2019s CAC 40 dipped 0.5%.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump rejected Iran\u2019s response to a U.S. peace proposal, calling it \u201ctotally unacceptable.\u201d Tehran proposed ending the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, along with compensation for war damage and claimed sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state TV said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/news\/40420306\/european-shares-slide-as-middle-east-tensions-flare\"><strong>European shares slide as Middle East tensions flare<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The war has shuttered the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas flows, with soaring oil prices adding to concerns over the conflict\u2019s impact on inflation and growth.<\/p>\n<p>Energy-dependent Europe remains vulnerable, with markets still trading below pre-war levels.<\/p>\n<p>Among early movers, UK\u2019s Compass Group gained 3.8% after the world\u2019s largest caterer raised its full-year profit outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Delivery Hero rose 3.7% after Dutch technology investor Prosus sold a 5% stake in the German food-delivery group to activist investor Aspex Management for roughly 335 million euros ($393 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European shares were muted on Monday, as stalled U.S.-Iran peace negotiations pushed oil prices higher and weighed on risk appetite. The pan-European STOXX 600 was flat at 611.67 points, as of 0703 GMT. Regional bourses moved in different directions, with London\u2019s FTSE 100 adding 0.2%, while France\u2019s CAC 40 dipped 0.5%. U.S. President Donald Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}