The pan-European STOXX 600 index gained 0.7%, with
miners and autos leading the gains, climbing
2.4% and 1.9%, respectively.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will release its
latest outlook for the global economy at 1300 GMT amid a
gathering of policymakers at the IMF World Bank Spring meetings.
Investors will also monitor euro zone's retail sales for
February and Sentix index for April, due later in the day, to
assess the health of the economic situation in the region.
Glencore rose 3.6% as its top boss plans to meet
with some of Teck Resources Ltd's Canadian
shareholders in Toronto this Thursday to garner support for
proposed takeover of the copper and zinc miner.
Vodafone rose 0.7% after the telecom major resolved
an outage that impacted thousands of its home broadband service
users in the United Kingdom, after hours of downtime.
(Reporting by Shubham Batra in Bengaluru; Editing by Nivedita
Bhattacharjee)
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April 11 (Reuters) - European shares rose on Tuesday,
with investors returning from a long holiday weekend to face a
week full of crucial economic data, including March inflation
for Germany and the U.S., providing more hints on the global
interest rate trajectory.
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