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By 0710 GMT, the pan-European STOXX 600 added 0.7% after posting its first weekly gain in four.
Technology stocks advanced 1.5%, their first climb in three sessions, tracking an overnight rally on Wall Street. [.N]
China’s finance ministry said on Sunday it was reducing the 0.1% duty on stock trades “in order to invigorate the capital market and boost investor confidence.”
China-linked sectors such as automakers and industrials added 1.1% and 1.0%, respectively.
China-exposed luxury heavyweights LVMH, Kering (EPA:PRTP) and Hermes added more than 1% each.
Meanwhile, interest rate expectations in the euro zone remained tepid following the European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde’s speech late on Friday at the Jackson Hole symposium.
Markets in the United Kingdom were closed for a summer bank holiday.
