date:Jul 09, 2014
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The Stoxx 600 added less than 0.1 per cent to 344.94 at 8:09 a.m. in London. The equity gauge rose 1.8 per cent last week as U.S. jobs data exceeded economists forecasts and commodity producers rallied. Standard Poors 500 Index futures slipped 0.1 pe rcent today. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index lost 0.2 percent.
The Stoxx 600 index traded at 15.5 times the estimated earnings of its members yesterday, near its highest valuation since 2009.
Alcoa Inc. unofficially opens the second-quarter