European shares inch up, food delivery stocks jump

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The pan-European STOXX 600 climbed 0.1% as of 0821 GMT after jumping 1.4% to its best day in two weeks in the previous session.

Just Eat Takeaway.com rose 5.1% after the food delivery firm announced a deal with One Stop, a British convenience store chain owned by Tesco (OTC:TSCDY), to handle orders and deliveries on its platform.

Germany’s Delivery Hero jumped 6% after saying it would scale down its Foodpanda operations in the country and sell the subsidiary’s Japan unit, citing increased competition and labour shortages.

Germany is set to introduce new measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 before New Year’s Eve, including limiting private gatherings for vaccinated people to a maximum of 10 people.

Belgian visual tech firm slumped 6.9% after saying component shortages caused delays that affected its third-quarter sales and forecast.