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Europe's leading stock exchanges opened today's trading session with a decline as investors were affected by the prospect of an impending rise in interest rates amid high inflation, CNBC reported.

London's FTSE 100 fell 69.11 points or 0.94 percent to 7248.41 points at 10:40 Bulgarian time.

In Frankfurt, the DAX index decreased by 169.45 points or 1.23 percent to 13,592.38 points.

The EU has excluded Belarus from the SWIFT system

Paris CAC 40 lost 108.5 points or 1.75 percent to 6078.73 points.

The pan-European Stoxx 600 fell 1 percent in early trading, with shares in tourism and entertainment companies down 2 percent and all sectors and major exchanges in negative territory.

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