European stocks started trading last week in the positive range as investor risk appetite improved somewhat ahead of the release of US jobs data and US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's speech later in the day. The main indicators were as follows:
- Eurostoxx index rose by 0.8%.
- German DAX rose 1.2%.
- French CAC40 rose 0.8%.
- UK FTSE Index rose 1.0%.
- Spain IBEX rose 0.8%.
- Italian FTSE Index rose 0.9%.
