U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Feb. 28, 2025.
Nathan Howard | Reuters
LONDON — European stocks are expected to unfastened successful affirmative territory connected Monday arsenic traders absorption connected a gathering betwixt European leaders and U.S. President Donald Trump to sermon Ukraine.
The U.K.'s FTSE scale is seen opening 0.23% higher, Germany's DAX up 0.16%, France's CAC 40 up 0.24% and Italy's FTSE MIB 0.2% higher.
European leaders, including German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, are traveling with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Washington to conscionable Trump astatine the White House to sermon a bid deal.
Zelenskyy is apt to travel nether unit to participate a deal. In a station connected Truth Social, Trump said the president could "end the warfare with Russia astir immediately, if helium wants to, oregon helium tin proceed to fight."
The gathering follows Trump's acme with Russian President Vladimir Putin past Friday, but the talks concluded without a ceasefire. It's been wide reported since past that Putin told Trump that helium would hold to one, if Russia was handed Ukraine's eastbound Donbas region. On Sunday, U.S. peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff suggested Ukraine could beryllium fixed immoderate information guarantees to bring an extremity to the war.
Overnight, Asia-Pacific markets mostly roseate up of the talks, portion U.S. banal futures traded somewhat higher aboriginal Monday aft hopes for little involvement rates fueled a winning week connected Wall Street.
There are nary large net connected Monday. Data releases see Spanish and EU commercialized equilibrium figures.
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