French stocks scale record highs to lift pan-European index
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STOXX 600 up 0.2%
France's CAC sets new record high
Airbus rises on profit beat
Pernod Ricard rises on upbeat H1 results
ECB's Panetta calls for small rate hikes
Updates to market close
By Shreyashi Sanyal and Amruta Khandekar
Feb 16 (Reuters) -European shares rose on Thursday as upbeat corporate earnings helped France's blue-chip index touch a new record high, overshadowing worries about U.S. interest rates staying elevated after further evidence of the country's economic strength.
France's CAC 40 index .FCHI ended up 0.9% at 7,366.16 points, after having scaled a new record high of 7,387.29 points during the day.
French stocks have risen nearly 13.8% so far this year, following a battering in 2022, boosted by hopes that the euro zone will narrowly avoid a recession, as well as strength in shares of China-exposed luxury firms such as LVMH LVMH.PA and Kering PRTP.PA.
Germany's industrials-heavy DAX index .GDAXI ended the day 0.2% higher.
"The luxury sector has got a boost in the hope that China reopening will see a pickup in demand," said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets UK, adding that a fall in energy prices has also led to a brighter domestic outlook.
"These same factors have helped the automotive sector in the CAC 40 and the DAX."
The pan-European STOXX 600 index .STOXX rose 0.2% but retreated from a near one-year high hit earlier in the session after data showed U.S. producer prices rose more than expected in January, spurring concerns that the Federal Reserve would stick to its rate hike campaign for longer.
"There is nothing here to suggest the Fed will be adopting a more dovish tone any time soon," said Stuart Cole, macro economist at Equiti Capital.
In the euro zone, price pressures have been on the decline but European Central Bank (ECB) policymakers have been stressing the need to stick to aggressive tightening, with the exception of board member Fabio Panetta who on Thursday called for smaller rate hikes.
BIG EARNINGS BOOST
European banks .SX7P rose 2.1% to lead gains among STOXX 600 sectors while industrials .SXNP were also a big boost to the index, with upbeat earnings reports driving gains.
Airbus AIR.PA rose 4.9% after the world's largest planemaker posted a stronger-than-expected quarterly operating profit.
Pernod Ricard PERP.PA gained 3.4% after the French drinks maker delivered forecast-beating first-half profit and sales, while the UK's Standard Chartered STAN.L reported a 28% rise in annual pretax profit and unveiled a new $1 billion share buyback programme, pushing its shares 4.1% higher.
London's FTSE 100 .FTSE gained 0.2%, closing above 8,000 points for the first time.
Germany's Commerzbank CBKG.DE jumped 11.6% on better-than-expected quarterly net profit, while French telecoms company Orange ORAN.PA rose 6.5% as it said it expects to bolster cash flows and increase shareholder returns by 2025.
Bucking the trend and limiting the STOXX 600's advance, was Nestle NESN.S, which fell 2.5% after world's biggest food group missed 2022 profit forecasts.
Reporting by Shreyashi Sanyal, Shristi Achar and Amruta Khandekar in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty, Sherry Jacob-Phillips and Sharon Singleton
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