B&Q owner sales fall amid DIY slump; oil prices rise on supply concerns – business live

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as weak housing markets hit home improvement spending at Kingfisher

It is a fairly quiet open on European stock markets on Monday morning.

On the FTSE 100 Kingfisher is one of the bigger fallers, but even so it is only down by 0.6%.

EUROPE’S STOXX 600 FLAT

BRITAIN’S FTSE 100 FLAT

FRANCE’S CAC 40 FLAT, SPAIN’S IBEX DIPS 0.2%

EURO STOXX INDEX AND EURO ZONE BLUE CHIPS FLAT

GERMANY’S DAX UP 0.1%

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