LONDON—Europe’s markets looked to put a testing Q3 behind them on Monday, with both stocks and the euro ticking sideways, bond markets steady and a last-minute deal to avert a U.S. government shutdown lifting Wall Street futures.
A fractional 0.2 percent move higher from the pan-European STOXX 600 in the face of some difficult data gave traders early hope the region could score its first three-session run of back-to-back gains since mid-August.
