【每日晨读金融时报】12Sep2025 英语口语听力 附原文及实用单词短语

▸ European equit­ies advance on signs of pro­gress for a Ukraine cease­fire

▸ Weaker US tech­no­logy stocks drag Wall Street bench­marks lower

▸ Japan­ese gov­ern­ment bonds slip after weak demand at a debt auc­tion

European stocks rose yes­ter­day, buoyed by signs of pro­gress in efforts to bring about a cease­fire in Ukraine.

US Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump warned Rus­sia's Pres­id­ent Vladi­mir Putin that he would face a “rough situ­ation” if he did not co-oper­ate in nego­ti­ations to end the war.

After Monday's meet­ing with European lead­ers at the White House, Trump also said the US could assist the con­tin­ent in provid­ing secur­ity guar­an­tees to Ukraine if there was a cease­fire.

The region-wide Stoxx Europe 600 index rose 0.7 per cent. In Paris, the Cac 40 index jumped 1.2 per cent while Frank­furt's Xetra Dax index climbed 0.5 per cent. The Swiss Mar­ket Index gained 1.2 per cent.

In Lon­don, the FTSE 100 index advanced 0.4 per cent to a record high.

Defence com­pan­ies pulled European stock mar­kets lower as investors con­sidered the implic­a­tions of an end to the con­flict for weapons man­u­fac­tur­ers.