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AMSTERDAM/LONDON: European stocks pared losses on Thursday as upbeat eurozone business growth data and strong US jobs data lifted sentiment on a dull day of trading, while rating actions and ex-dividend trading knocked UK shares lower.

The pan-European STOXX 600 index was down 0.1% after falling as much as 0.8% earlier in the session. The automobiles & auto parts and healthcare sectors gained, while miners fell the most.

A host of British companies, including National Grid and Kingfisher, traded without entitlement for dividend, pulling UK's FTSE 100 0.6% lower.

After a record expansion in euro zone factory activity, IHS Markit's final reading showed the bloc's dominant service sector sprang back into life last month as restrictions eased.

An index covering the service industry soared to a near three-year high of 55.2 from 50.5, just beating the 55.1 flash estimate.

Solid earnings, massive stimulus programmes and a pick-up in the pace of Covid-19 vaccination have helped pushed the STOXX 600 up 12.1% so far this year, while Wall Street's S&P 500 has climbed 11.8%.

French spirits group Remy Cointreau slipped 3.3% after hitting a record high as it topped estimates for full-year operating profit growth and handed investors an 85% dividend hike.

Construction materials group Saint-Gobain gained 4.2% after forecasting record operating income and margin in the first half of the year. Britain's biggest telecom group BT group fell 1.9% after Deutsche Bank downgraded the stock to "sell", saying it is overvalued.

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