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The pan-European Stoxx 600
index is up 0.6% in mid-morning London trade, while the FTSE 100
has extended its record intraday high, up 1.1% at 8,965.7 points.
Global investors are brushing off a string of announcements of high U.S. tariffs because they are being viewed a “posturing,” according to Hargreaves Lansdown’s head of money and markets, Susannah Streeter. Ultimately, traders see room to negotiate top rates away in the weeks ahead, and are also still hoping for news of an EU framework deal with the White House, she said in a Thursday morning note.
