Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks rose for a fifth day, capping the Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index’s best week on record, as lower oil lifted airlines and overshadowed a reduced sales forecast from STMicroelectronics NV.

British Airways Plc added 5.8 percent and Air France-KLM Group gained 3.8 percent as crude slid below $52 a barrel. STMicroelectronics, Europe’s largest chipmaker, sank 5.1 percent, dragging down technology shares.

The Stoxx 600 added 1.3 percent to 206.25, extending the rebound from a five-year low on Nov. 21 to 13 percent. Raw- materials producers, banks and insurers led this week’s gains on speculation government stimulus packages in Europe and the U.S. will cushion economies from the financial crisis. The index still lost 7.1 percent in November.

More than $30 trillion has been wiped off the value of global equities this year as credit losses and writedowns approached $1 trillion in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

National benchmark indexes rose in 10 out of 18 western European markets today. The FTSE 100 gained 1.5 percent. Germany’s DAX was little changed as Infineon Technologies AG declined. France’s CAC 40 increased 0.4 percent.

Global Rally

The rally in global stocks this week pushed the MSCI World Index up 12 percent, the biggest weekly gain since records began in 1970. The gauge of 23 developed markets still dropped 7.3 percent this month and is down 44 percent in 2008.

Europe’s inflation rate fell by the most in almost two decades to 2.1 percent in November and unemployment increased, adding to pressure on the European Central Bank to continue cutting interest rates to battle the recession.

British Airways increased 5.8 percent to 155.1 pence. Air France-KLM, Europe’s biggest carrier, added 3.8 percent to 10.20 euros. Iberia Lineas Aereas de Espana SA, Spain’s largest airline, gained 8.4 percent to 1.94 euros.

Crude oil for January delivery sank as much as $3.32, or 6.1 percent, to $51.12 a barrel in New York on speculation a potential OPEC production cut to support prices may fail to outweigh declining fuel demand amid the global recession.

Commerzbank AG climbed 4.9 percent to 7.22 euros after Germany’s second-biggest lender sped up its takeover of domestic competitor Dresdner Bank by as much as a year in a revised purchase valued at 5.1 billion euros ($6.6 billion).

Dresdner’s owner Allianz SE jumped 9 percent to 65.21 euros. Commerzbank will pay Allianz 250 million euros as part of the new agreement to forgo an agreement covering potential losses on specific asset-backed securities at Dresdner.

Storebrand, Chipmakers

Storebrand ASA, Norway’s largest publicly traded insurer, advanced 9.2 percent to 12.51 kroner after the government canceled the sale of Kaupthing Bank hf’s stake in the company.

Acergy SA, the U.K.-based provider of oil services, climbed 9.8 percent to 39.8 kroner after its outlook for next year exceeded analyst estimates.

STMicroelectronics slid 5.1 percent to 5.17 euros today. The company said revenue will be $2.2 billion to $2.35 billion, down from $2.7 billion in the previous quarter. That equals a decline of 13 percent to 18 percent, the company said. An earlier prediction was that sales would be unchanged to down 8 percent.

Infineon Technologies AG, Europe’s second-biggest maker of semiconductors, dropped 4.2 percent to 1.85 euros.

To contact the reporter on this story: Michael Patterson in London at mpatterson10@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: November 28, 2008 12:55 EST