LONDON—European stocks sank to two-month lows on Friday after slides in Asia and on Wall Street, with euro zone inflation data expected to hit a 13-year high to compound investor fears over surging prices combining with stuttering growth.
On the first day of October, the month for some of history’s most infamous market routs, the STOXX index of 600 companies fell 0.9 percent, hitting its weakest level since mid-July.
