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Europe markets open: Stoxx 600 falls 0.15% as HSBC shares plunge over 6%

by October 9, 2025
by October 9, 2025

A powerful fault line has split the global financial world, with European markets stumbling into the red on Thursday, completely detached from the powerful, record-setting rallies that have sent Wall Street and Asia soaring.

The weakness on the continent is being driven by a dramatic corporate bombshell from the banking giant HSBC and a deepening political crisis in the heart of Europe.

The pan-European Stoxx 600 was down 0.15 percent shortly after the opening bell, with the banking sector bearing the brunt of the selling pressure, dropping a sharp 1.3 percent.

The primary catalyst for the market’s anxiety is a stunning and unexpected move from HSBC.

The lender’s London-listed shares have tumbled over 6 percent after it put forward a surprise privatization proposal for its Hong Kong-based subsidiary, Hang Seng Bank.

HSBC, which already holds a 63 percent stake, announced that if the deal is approved, “Hang Seng will become a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Asia Pacific and will be delisted from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.”

While the move is designed to consolidate control, it has sent a chill through its London investors.

In a stark and telling divergence, Hang Seng’s own shares soared on the news in Hong Kong, a powerful illustration of the complex and often conflicting forces at play in a global financial behemoth.

A government on the brink: all eyes on Paris

This corporate drama is unfolding against a backdrop of significant political instability in France.

Market attention is firmly fixed on Paris, where President Emmanuel Macron is expected to name a new prime minister in the next 48 hours.

The move comes after the resignation of Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu on Monday, a high-stakes gambit that has plunged the country into a fresh political crisis.

Macron is now under intense pressure to find a leader who can break the political deadlock that has gripped the nation, a task that seems increasingly difficult in a fractured parliament.

A bullish counterpoint from across the globe

This European weakness stands in stark contrast to the unbridled optimism seen elsewhere.

In Asia, shares of the Japanese giant SoftBank surged as much as 13 percent after it announced a massive $5.4 billion deal to buy the robotics division of ABB, a move that has further electrified the global AI trade.

That optimism is a direct echo of another record-setting session on Wall Street.

On Wednesday, the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite climbed more than 1 percent to close above the 23,000 mark for the first time in history, a rally fueled by the relentless enthusiasm for artificial intelligence.

Even a bullish comment from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who told CNBC that computing demand has “gone up substantially” this year, was enough to send the chip giant’s shares up over 2 percent.

For a nervous Europe, however, that powerful global tailwind is, for now, a world away.

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