Stock Market News (European Open) – European blue-chips mostly edging higher; tax reform dominates attention in US

Major benchmarks in Asia finished the day in the red today. The Nikkei 225 finished flat after gaining as much as 0.7% and losing as much as 0.3% during the day. Japan’s broader gauge of equity performance, the Topix, lost 0.3%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng closed 0.1% down, while the Shanghai Composite fell by 0.5%. […]