Shares on the major stock market indexes in Europe ended the session with losses on Friday, as inflation remained in traders' focus. After yesterday's worse-than-expected reading from the United States, Germany's consumer prices have risen 4.9% on an annual basis in January.
On the COVID-19 front, the French government could scrap the vaccine passes at the end of March or the beginning of April, according to its announcement.
The DAX went down by 0.42% at the close as Delivery Hero plunged 11.81%. The CAC 40 dropped 1.27% at the same time with Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield dropping 3.98%. Meanwhile, in London, the FTSE 100 declined by 0.15% as Spirax-Sarco Engineering dove 3.79%.
The euro slid 0.27% compared to the dollar at 5:31 pm CET, selling for 1.14015, while the pound advanced 0.34% against the greenback a minute later, to go for 1.35996.
