Markets slide on Portugal bank fears: live
17:19 Here's how Reuter's Breakingviews sums up today's events:
16:56 Today's market volatility has been a reminder to investor's that
the eurozone's recovery is fragile - especially among its southern European
members - and feeds wide fears that its banks have still not bitten the
bullet over bad loans.
The FTSE 100 index ended the day down 0.68pc at 6,672.37 points. In
Frankfurt, the DAX 30 lost 1.52pc to 9,659.13, and in Paris the CAC
40 slid 1.34pc to 4,301.26 points. Read more [...]