European shares climb with focus on US cenbank policy decision
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Sept 13 (Reuters) -European stocks advanced on Friday and were poised for weekly gains, supported by miners, while investors shifted their focus to the U.S. Federal Reserve ahead of a long-awaited monetary easing cycle at its meeting next week.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index .STOXX was up 0.5% at 514.5 points, as of 0710 GMT, with France's CAC 40 .FCHI rising 0.3% after consumer prices in the region's second-largest economy rose 2.2% year-on-year in August, in line with its preliminary reading.
Miners .SXPP boosted the markets, rising 0.6%, as copper prices hit a two-week high on buying ahead of a Chinese holiday and amid stimulus hopes after President Xi Jinping pushed for measures to boost economic growth. MET/L
After the European Central Bank (ECB) lowered its deposit rate to 3.5% on Thursday, investors are now wagering on the size and extent of the rate cut by the U.S. central bank next week, with money markets seeing a 43% chance for a 50 bps reduction on Sept. 18.
"I think there's a strong case for 50," said Bill Dudley, the former chief of the New York Fed.
Astrazeneca AZN.L was the top loser with a 1.1% fall after Deutsche Bank cut the stock rating to "sell" and lowered its price target on Friday.
Shares of Denmark's DSV DSV.CO climbed 2.4% after the transportation and logistics services operator announced plans to invest around one billion euros ($1.1 billion) in Germany over the next three to five years as the new owner of Deutsche Bahn's [RIC:RIC:DBN.UL] logistics unit Schenker.
Reporting by Shubham Batra in Bengaluru; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips
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