Europe’s leading stock markets were trading around flat in late afternoon on Friday. Brent crude was steady while market interest rates edged slightly lower. The news flow includes a new suitor for Easyjet.
At the same time, the US continues technical talks with Iran and says it still wants to find a solution to the conflict, even as it accuses Iran of attacks on commercial vessels and of failing to live up to the terms of an earlier memorandum.
The broad European Stoxx 600 index was up 0.10 percent at 16:13 to…