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European stocks climb, London hits 10-month high

AFP, London
Europe's main stock markets advanced on Thursday, with London reaching a 10-month high, after a positive outlook for the US economy and data showing an end to recession in Germany and France.
London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of leading shares rose 1.11 percent to 4,768.97 points approaching midday in the British capital. It was the highest level since early October.
Frankfurt's DAX 30 gained 1.42 percent to 5,426.29 points and in Paris the CAC 40 added 0.97 per-centto3,541.24.
The DJ Euro Stoxx 50 index of leading eurozone shares won 1.13 percent to 2,718.52 points.
On the foreign exchange market, the European single currency jumped to 1.4247 dollars.
"The European markets are playing catch up to the US today after a good rally in the US markets last night following a positive message about the economy from the Fed," said Joshua Raymond, market strategist at City Index. "The FTSE 100 has now reached a new ten month high and it seems this upward momentum has no end in sight just yet."
US stocks rallied on Wednesday, buoyed by comments from the Federal Reserve that the recession-mired US economy is stabilising as it announced a scaleback in its massive pump primingeffort.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1.30 percent tofinishat9,361.61 points.
On Thursday, official EU data showed the economy of the 16 nations using the euro contracted by just 0.1 percent in the second quarter.
The figures, which are initial estimates, fuelled hopes that the eurozone's biggest hitters can pull the others out of the worst recession the region has known since 1945.
Germany, the biggest eurozone economy, and France both surprised on Thursday with GDP (gross domestic product) growth of 0.3 percent in the second quarter, confounding official forecasts of continued contraction.
Investors on Thursday also digested more earnings
news from the European insurance sector.
In London, the share price of Prudential soared 7.46 percent to 514 pence after the biggest British insurer said it was hiking its half-year dividend by five percent thanks to stronger -capital reserves.
Prudential added that its net losses more than doubled in the first half on costs linked to the sale of Taiwanese operations. However its operating profit rose six percent, helped by strong sales growth of its products in the United States.
Dutch insurer Aegon slumped 6.84 percent to 5.325 euros after the group reported a second-quarter loss of 161 million euros (229 million dollars) and said it would issue up to one billion euros in shares to repay pan of a stale investment.
Earlier in Asian trading, Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei-225 index closed up 0.79 percent to 10,517.19 points on Thursday, lifted by the overnight rally on Wall > Street, traders said.