Tuesday, June 5, 2007

European shares extend losses on Bernanke comments

(Reuters) - European shares extended losses on Tuesday after comments by U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke flagged risks to U.S. economic growth but held out little chance of a rate cut to offset them.

The FTSEurofirst 300 slipped to trade down 0.55 percent at 1,613.12 points, well off its day high of 1,625.87.


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