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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Anna Wise

European stocks surge amid hopes US will scale back tariff plans

London’s stock market was outperformed by international peers on Monday (Tim Goode/PA) - (PA Archive)

London’s stock market was outperformed by international peers on Monday, which were buoyed amid reports that US President-elect Donald Trump was considering limiting his tariff plans.

The FTSE 100 closed 25.68 points higher, or 0.31%, at 8,249.66 following a late-afternoon boost to trading.

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