European Stocks Advance as FTSE 100 Caps Record Winning Streak
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European stocks ended the session higher amid gains in miners and energy shares, while comments by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump weighed on drugmakers.
The Stoxx Europe 600 Index added 0.2 percent at the close, erasing an early decline of as much as 0.3 percent. Health-care stocks fell the most among sectors after Trump said in his first press conference as U.S. President-elect that he’d force the industry to bid for government business.