European markets closed trading today mostly in the red, breaking the positive trend of the mood of the stock exchanges in the Asia-Pacific region, reports BTA.

This is happening against the background of China's stated intention to ease some of the measures related to the coronovirus in the country. 

Wall Street started in the red ahead of a key US services report

London's FTSE 100 was the only one among the leading European indices to register an increase.

At the close of trading, the indicator rose by 11.31 points, or 0.15 percent, compared to Friday's new, to 7,567.54 points.

In Frankfurt, the DAX fell 81.78 points, or 0.56 percent, to 14,447.61.

The Paris CAC 40 fell 45.29 points, or 0.67 percent, to 6,696.96.

Milan's FTSE MIB fell 73.88 points, or 0.3 percent, to 24,547.84

The pan-European Stoxx600 was down 0.4 percent, with food stocks down an average of 1.4 percent and materials stocks up 0.7 percent.

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