US stock markets are cruising today as tech rips but it was a different story in Europe as optimism about exports to China ebbed.

  • Stoxx 600 -0.5%
  • Germany DAX -0.2%
  • France CAC -0.7%
  • UK FTSE 100 -1.4%
  • Spain IBEX flat
  • Italy FTSE MIB -0.3%

The FTSE 100 has been too quiet for too long.

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