European equity markets struggled to build on record highs on Monday, as investors appeared to take a breather at the start of a holiday-shortened week.
The benchmark Stoxx 600 SXXP, +0.03% traded flat at 418.57, after closing out Friday’s session with a 0.8% gain to 418.80, which marked a fresh closing high. The FTSE 100 UKX, +0.36% was unchanged at 7,586.74. Among other regional indexes, the German DAX 30 index DAX, -0.17% was flat at 13,310.73 and the French CAC 40 index PX1, +0.04% was steady at 6,020.78.
