European Stocks Open Lower; FTSE 100 Falls 1%

The dispersion is the story here: the FTSE 100's outsized drop against broadly uniform 0.4% declines across the Euro Stoxx 50, DAX and CAC 40 points to UK-specific pressure rather than a region-wide risk-off move. That distinction matters for anyone reading European equity weakness as a single macro signal, since the index composition and currency exposure differ markedly. Whether the FTSE's underperformance is a one-session aberration or the start of a sustained divergence from continental benchmarks is the open question worth tracking.