European stocks started the week on expectations of increased adoption of new stimulus measures by central banks in the world due to the continued weakening of the global economy.

Today's data on the index of business activity eurozone and France came out better than slightly better than forecast.

An important event of this week is the ECB meeting, and investors are hoping that the head of the Central Bank, Mario Draghi will publish details of the program of redemption eurozone sovereign bonds, previously announced.

To date:

FTSE 100 5,745.02 +33.54 +0.59%

CAC 40 3,434.15 +21.08 +0.62%

DAX 7,002.95 +32.16 +0.46%