London--Feb. 8--European stocks ended largely in positive territory after a number of strong earnings results helped bolster the markets and the Bank of England lowered its interest rates, as expected. Trading volumes remained slow.
The U.K.'s FTSE-100 index closed down 19.5 points at 6206.1, Germany's Xetra DAX-30 was up 41.34 points at 6620.07, France's CAC-40 closed up 21.32 points at 5752.14, Italy's MIBTEL closed up 23 points at 30,050, and The Netherlands' AEX index closed up 2.04 points at 626.9.