LIVE MARKETS-STOXX soft, banks weigh
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STOXX SOFT, BANKS WEIGH
European shares are a touch softer in early trade, weighed on by a decline in banking stocks.
European banks .SX7P are down about 1.8%, tracking moves seen in U.S. financials on Monday on worries that AI will disrupt and alter the business models of companies in the sector, from payments to insurance.
The pan-European STOXX 600 .STOXX is down about 0.3%, but breadth is still slightly positive with advancers outnumbering declining stocks by about 1.2 to 1.
Other major bourses are mostly lower, with the CAC .FCHI, FTSE .FTSE and DAX .GDAXI down between 0.3% and 0.4%. Switzerland's SMI outperforms, rising 0.1% to a new record.
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