Positive European market sentiment wavers as traders await UK and EU growth data

Good greeting from London, and invited to CNBC's unrecorded blog covering each the enactment and concern quality successful European fiscal markets connected Thursday.

Futures information from IG suggests a mostly affirmative unfastened for European indexes, with London's FTSE 100 seen opening 0.15% higher, France's CAC 40 and Germany's DAX are seen opening astir the flatline, and Italy's FTSE MIB somewhat higher.

The pullback successful sentiment among European bourses comes up of the latest indicator of the authorities of wellness of large determination economies, with gross home merchandise readings from the U.K. and European Union connected Thursday.

European markets had ended the time higher connected Wednesday, with the pan-European Stoxx 600 scale rising 0.55% aft the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite rallied to caller records yesterday. Investors are gearing up for much ostentation information to measure the authorities of the U.S. economy.

The shaper terms index, owed Thursday, volition beryllium important factors successful the absorption involvement rates instrumentality astatine the Federal Reserve's adjacent gathering successful September.

— Holly Ellyatt

Earnings are acceptable to travel from Adyen, Swiss Re, Hapag-Lloyd, RWE, Talanx, CVC Capital Partners, Aviva, Antofagasta and Carlsberg connected Thursday.

On the information front, U.K. second-quarter preliminary gross home merchandise figures are released astatine 7 a.m. London time, followed by the latest French ostentation figures soon aft and the EU employment and GDP information astatine 10 a.m. London time.

— Holly Ellyatt