Shares were mixed Monday in Europe and Asia, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 leading advances after stocks rose on Wall Street.
Oil prices rose as the status of efforts to end the conflict in the Middle East remained uncertain.
In early European trading, Germany’s DAX rose 0.3% to 26,411.01, while the CAC 40 in Paris edged 0.1% lower, to 8,703.73. Britain’s FTSE 100 lost 0.3% to 10,869.35.
The future for the S&P 500 was up 0.1%, while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.1%.
In Tokyo, the benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped 2.1% to 66,970.22, pulled higher by strong gains for technology companies.
