LONDON — European markets were muted on Friday, with global sentiment hanging in the balance as the Ukraine-Russia crisis reaches a pivotal moment.
In terms of individual share price movement, Finnish pharmaceutical company Orion soared more than 19% in early trade after Bayer on Thursday announced positive results from clinical trials of a prostate cancer drug developed by the two companies.
At the bottom of the European blue chip index, Swedish heating technology company Nibe Industrier fell 5.6% after its fourth-quarter earnings report.
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