Tourists visiting the city take boat trips on the canals in Amsterdam, Netherlands on May 25, 2024.
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LONDON — European stocks nudged just above the flatline in late trade Thursday, helped along by a revival in confidence around the U.S. economy.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 index closed 0.02% higher after spending most of the session in the red, with sectors remaining in mixed territory. Media and chemicals stocks both slipped 0.6%, while travel stocks gained 1.28%.
There was an element of market overreaction to that initial jobs report, Janet Mui, head of market analysis at RBC Brewin Dolphin, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Thursday morning.
“The jobs data is actually not that bad, employment is still growing and particularly importantly, real wage growth is still positive. That’s a good back drop for consumer generally,” Mui said.
“There is clearly a slowdown there which has been brewing for a while and I think that adds to market concern, and of course a lot is positioning of speculative investors and traders,” she said, adding that her base case for the U.S. economy remained a soft landing rather than a recession.
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