European stocks fell, as banks and automakers declined, while the Turkish central bank’s interest rate increases failed to support emerging-market currencies.

The Stoxx Europe 600 Index dropped 0.6 percent to 322.3 at 4:30 p.m. in London, paring earlier losses of as much as 1.5 percent. The gauge had jumped as much as 1.2 percent after Turkey’s central bank raised interest rates.

“You see volatile equity markets today because of vulnerable emerging-market currencies,” said Markus Wallner, an equity strategist at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt. “These events are reigniting fears in equity markets as a rise in interest rates by Turkey’s central bank does not appear to have helped. As we see with the Turkish lira today, this is a continuing problem which has not been solved yet.”

National benchmark gauges declined in 16 of the 18 western-European markets.

FTSE 100 6,544.28 -28.05 -0.43% CAC 40 4,156.98 -28.31 -0.68% DAX 9,336.73 -70.18 -0.75%

The Federal Reserve will conclude its final two-day monetary-policy meeting under Chairman Ben S. Bernanke today. He leaves his post on Jan. 31. The central bank will probably reduce its monthly bond purchases by $10 billion, followed by further increments of the same amount at the next five meetings before announcing an end to the program no later than December, according survey this month.

Fiat slid 4.8 percent to 7.19 euros. The Turin-based carmaker said fourth-quarter earnings before interest, taxes and one-time items rose 5 percent to 931 million euros ($1.27 billion) from 887 million euros a year earlier. That missed the 1.12 billion-euro average of analyst estimates.

Mulberry tumbled 28 percent to 645 pence. The British luxury-handbag maker also said full-year wholesale sales will fall by about 10 percent because of order cancellations from Korean customers.

J Sainsbury Plc lost 2.5 percent to 347.9 pence after announcing that Justin King will step down as chief executive officer in July after a decade in the role. Commercial Director Mike Coupe will succeed him as head of the U.K.’s third-biggest supermarket company.

Anglo American, which owns Anglo American Platinum Ltd., advanced 5.9 percent to 1,422.5 pence. The owner of the world’s biggest platinum mine said fourth-quarter production of the metal rose 25 percent as it recovered from labor disruptions. It also posted a 25 percent increase in output at its Kumba Iron Ore unit and a 24 percent rise in copper production.

Arkema SA (AKE) increased 3.7 percent to 80.08 euros. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. upgraded the French chemicals maker to conviction buy from neutral, citing the possibility of merger and acquisition activity in the industry because of high levels of cash, and the company’s exposure to an economic recovery in Europe.

U.S. stock futures fell, as forecasts from companies including Yahoo! Inc. and AT&T Inc. disappointed and investors awaited the Federal Reserve’s policy decision.

Global markets:

Nikkei 15,383.91 +403.75 +2.70%

Hang Seng 22,141.61 +180.97 +0.82%

Shanghai Composite 2,049.91 +11.40 +0.56%

FTSE 6,488.98 -83.35 -1.27%

CAC 4,109.49 -75.80 -1.81%

DAX 9,221.3 -185.61 -1.97%

Crude oil $96.65 (-0.78%)

Gold $1265.40 (+1.19%).

European stocks advanced for a second day as Turkey’s central bank increased interest rates to halt a currency slide that roiled global markets. U.S. stock-index futures and Asian shares also climbed.

The Stoxx Europe 600 Index climbed 0.8 percent to 326.79 at 8:09 a.m. in London.

Turkey’s lira jumped against the dollar today after the central bank raised its repurchase rate to 10 percent from 4.5 percent and boosted other key borrowing costs at a late-night emergency meeting.

In Germany, a gauge of consumer confidence will rise to 8.2 in February from a revised 7.7 in January, Nuremberg-based research company GfK AG said today. That would be the highest since August 2007. Analysts had expected a reading of 7.6, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey.

Anglo American advanced 5.3 percent to 1,414.5 pence. The owner of the world’s biggest platinum mine said fourth-quarter production of the metal rose 25 percent as it recovered from labor disruptions. It also posted a 25 percent increase in output at its Kumba Iron Ore unit and a 24 percent rise in copper production.

Lloyds added 0.9 percent to 83.6 pence. The lender has begun meeting institutional investors about selling between 30 percent and 50 percent of its TSB bank in an IPO, the Telegraph newspaper reported, citing unidentified fund managers.

Osram Licht AG, the lighting manufacturer that was spun off from Siemens AG, advanced 4.6 percent to 48.31 euros after reporting first-quarter net income of 68 million euros ($92.9 million), beating analyst forecasts for 56.6 million euros.

Mulberry Group Plc tumbled 19 percent to 728 pence after saying full-year pre-tax profit will be substantially below current market estimates. The British luxury-handbag maker said full-year wholesale sales will fall by about 10 percent because of order cancellations from Korean customers.

FTSE 100 6,588.58 +16.25 +0.25%

CAC 40 4,188.09 +2.80 +0.07%

DAX 9,440.02 +33.11 +0.35%

Asian stocks rose, with the regional benchmark index on course for its biggest advance in four months, after Turkey’s central bank more than doubled interest rates to arrest a currency slide that roiled global markets.

FTSE 100 6,572.33 +21.67 +0.33%

CAC 40 4,185.29 +40.73 +0.98%

Xetra DAX 9,406.91 +57.69 +0.62%

Honda Motor Co., which gets 83 percent of its car sales outside Japan, climbed 3 percent as the yen weakened against the dollar.

Atlas Iron Ltd. jumped 10 percent in Sydney after the producer of the metal used to make steel raised its shipment target.

Advantest Corp., a maker of electronic measuring instruments, sank 4.4 percent in Tokyo after widening its full-year net loss forecast.