European stocks traded lower on Thursday to extend losses from the previous session, as a slew of downbeat earnings updates added to jitters around the Middle East war and rising bond yields.
Bond yields surged in Europe, with Germany's 10-year government bond yield, the benchmark for the euro area, rising 3 basis points (bps) to 2.95 percent ahead of Fed Chair Jerome Powell's speech later in the day.
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