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The pan-European STOXX 600 index (STOXX) slipped 0.1% by 0708 GMT, with travel & leisure stocks (SXTP) leading the losses with a 1% decline.
Market sentiment remained shaky as France registered a record 10,593 new confirmed coronavirus on Thursday, the highest single-day count since the pandemic began, while the United Kingdom also saw a surge in cases.
A spree of dealmaking drove activity in individual stocks. Spain’s state-owned Bankia (MC:BKIA) slipped 2% after Caixabank (MC:CABK) valued it at 4.3 billion euros ($5.10 billion) as part of a deal that will create Spain’s biggest domestic bank.
Euronext (PA:ENX) jumped 3.4% after London Stock Exchange (L:LSE) said it had entered into exclusive talks to sell Borsa Italian to the French exchange operator.
Germany’s Covestro (DE:1COV) gained 5.8% after Bloomberg reported private equity firm Apollo Global Management (N:APO) was exploring a takeover of the plastics maker.
