{"id":430309,"date":"2026-05-08T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/major-european-indices-close-lower-on-the-day\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:00:08","slug":"major-european-indices-close-lower-on-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/major-european-indices-close-lower-on-the-day-430309\/","title":{"rendered":"Major European indices close lower on the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The major European indices are closing mostly lower:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>German DAX, -1.44%. France&#8217;s CAC -1.09%<\/li>\n<li>UK&#8217;s FTSE 100 -0.43%<\/li>\n<li>Spain&#8217;s Ibex -0.95%<\/li>\n<li>Italy&#8217;s FTSE MIB unchanged<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the trading week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>German DAX, +0.06%<\/li>\n<li>France&#8217;s CAC -0.03%<\/li>\n<li>UK&#8217;s FTSE 100 -1.26%<\/li>\n<li>Spain&#8217;s Ibex +0.61%<\/li>\n<li>Italy&#8217;s FTSE MIB +2.16% <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As London\/European traders headfor the exits, the US stock indices remain higher led by the NASDAQ index with a gain of 1.32%. The S&amp;P index is up 0.71% while the Dow Industrial Average is near unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The major European indices are closing mostly lower: German DAX, -1.44%. France&#8217;s CAC -1.09% UK&#8217;s FTSE 100 -0.43% Spain&#8217;s Ibex -0.95% Italy&#8217;s FTSE MIB unchanged For the trading week: German DAX, +0.06%&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}