Major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday.
The DJ Stoxx banks index rose 0.7 percent, with Societe Generale up 2.1 percent and CS Group adding 1.8 percent. "It is the positive outlook that supports the (Deutsche Bank) share price, the tendency that markets seem to stabilise again and that business is going well," WestLB analyst Georg Kanders said. "It is all not as bad as one would have thought." The FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares rose 0.66 percent to 1,549.41 points - its highest close since August 8 - having been down as much as 0.7 percent earlier.