In Europe, the Stoxx Europe 600 declined 0.3% in morning trading. ConvaTec Group added 5.4% and SFS Group rose 2.6%. On the other hand, Alcon sunk 10.8%, and K+S slipped 3.4%. The FTSE 100 lost 0.1%.

Shares of Laopu Gold keep marching higher, as a robust set of earnings firms investors' conviction in the jewelry brand that's won over Chinese consumers.

Rosebank Industries reported a pretax loss for the first half of the year due to expenses related to its $1.9 billion acquisition of Electrical Components International. The U.K. company--led by Simon ...

The London-listed energy company lifted its output guidance for the full year to 119,000 to 125,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day from a prior range of 109,000 to 119,000 BOE a day. Meanwhile, it ...