European Shares Fall on Evergrande Fears but Hold Weekly Gains

European Shares Fall on Evergrande Fears but Hold Weekly Gains
A man wearing a protective mask, amid the COVID-19 outbreak, is reflected on an electronic board displaying stock prices outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan on Sept. 21, 2021. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
|Updated:

LONDON/HONG KONG—European shares slipped on Friday but held their gains for the week as uncertainty around the fate of debt-ridden China Evergrande weighed on investor sentiment.

The regionwide STOXX 600 index slipped 0.78 percent after a three-day run of gains. Britain’s FTSE 100 and Germany’s also weakened.