European shares open higher

European equities opened higher on Friday, having already recouped all their losses from a bruising 8 per cent correction earlier this week, with investors betting on easy central-bank policy to combat a slower growth outlook. The FTSEurofirst 300 index was up 0.2 per cent at 0712 GMT, with top benchmark indexes in London, Paris and Frankfurt up 0.1 to 0.4 per cent, according to Reuters.

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