PARIS: European stocks were set to inch up on Wednesday, halting the previous session's pull-back as investors awaited a batch of macro data on the euro zone, including French and German services PMIs for February.
Data released earlier showed activity in China's services sector grew modestly in February as new orders rose at their quickest pace in three months, with The HSBC/Market Services PMI picking up to 52.0 last month from January's 51.8.
Financial spread-betters expected Britain's FTSE 100 to open 10 to 11 points higher, or up 0.2 percent, Germany's DAX to open 17 to 20 points higher, or 0.2 percent, and France's CAC 40 to open 14 to 15 points higher, or 0.3 percent.
The FTSEurofirst 300 ended down 1 percent on Tuesday, slipping from a seven-year high reached earlier this week.
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