<div id="readability-page-1">12:08 PM EST, 12/19/2025 (MT Newswires) -- European stock markets closed mostly higher in Friday trading as the Stoxx Europe 600 rose 0.37%, Germany's DAX gained 0.37%, the FTSE 100 was up 0.61%, France's CAC was flat, and the Swiss Market Index advanced 0.27%.The European Commission's flash consumer confidence indicator edged 0.1 percentage points lower in the European Union in December to -13.7, and was down 0.4 points to -14.6 in the euro area. Both readings remained &#34;well below&#34; its long-term average, according to the Commission.In Germany, producer prices of industrial products were down 2.3% in November, compared with a year earlier, according to the country's Federal Statistical Office, which attributed the decline to lower energy prices.In the UK, retail sales volume rose an estimated 0.6% in the three months to November, compared with the three months to August, according to the UK's Office for National Statistics, which cited &#34;a strong three-monthly performance&#34; for clothing stores, and computer and telecommunication retailers.And in corporate news, Stellantis, Tesla, BYD, and Volkswagen Group's investigations by Italy's competition authority have been closed, and the companies have been asked to implement new measures, the regulator said Friday.The automakers faced an Italian probe over the &#34;adequacy and transparency&#34; of the information displayed to consumers related to electric vehicles' driving range, battery capacity degradation, and limitations on standard battery warranties, Autorita Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato said.A BYD spokesperson told MT Newswires that the company has no comment on the matter, while Tesla, Stellantis, and Volkswagen Group did not immediately respond to requests for statements.Shares of Stellantis were down 1% in Paris, while Volkswagen shares were off 0.4% in Frankfurt.AstraZeneca will halt US sales of Andexxa by Monday, following warnings from the US Food and Drug Administration that the drug's risks, including serious thromboembolic events, outweigh its benefits, the health regulator said Thursday.Following discussions with the FDA, AstraZeneca requested voluntary withdrawal of Andexxa's biologics license application and confirmed that US sales and manufacturing will end after Dec. 22.AstraZeneca did not immediately reply to MT Newswires' request for comment.Shares of the British pharmaceutical company rose 0.9% in London.BHP CEO Mike Henry will focus on copper projects and opportunities in Canada, moving on from the company's abandoned effort to acquire Anglo American, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing an interview on BNN Bloomberg.In November, BHP Group said it is no longer contemplating a combination with Anglo American following preliminary talks. Henry said that BHP can invest in its own projects while simultaneously pursuing acquisitions of copper assets, the report said.BHP did not immediately respond to an MT Newswires request for comment.Shares of the mining company were up 0.2% in London.Eni-owned Eniverse will form SunXT with FuturaSun to develop perovskite silicon tandem solar panels, FuturaSun said Friday. SunXT will use Solertix, a FuturaSun group startup focused on perovskite cells, as its center for tandem photovoltaic work in Italy, the company said.Shares of the Italian oil and gas company advanced 1.7% in Milan. MT Newswires does not provide investment advice. Unauthorized reproduction is strictly prohibited.</div>

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歐洲股市收盤上漲，Stoxx Europe 600 指數上漲 0.37%。歐盟消費者信心略有下降。德國的生產者價格因能源成本降低而下跌。英國零售銷售上升。意大利關閉了對汽車製造商電動車信息透明度的調查。阿斯利康因 FDA 警告將停止在美國銷售 Andexxa。必和必拓將重點轉向加拿大的銅項目。意大利能源公司 Eni 的 Eniverse 與 FuturaSun 合作開發太陽能電池板。斯特蘭蒂斯和大眾汽車的股價下跌，而阿斯利康和必和必拓的股價上漲

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