BANGKOK -- Shares opened higher in Europe on Thursday after a mixed session in Asia following a Big Tech-led retreat on Wall Street. Germany's DAX advanced 0.7% to 19,394.41 while the CAC 40 in Paris gained 0.6% to 7,185.13. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.2% to 8,290.37.

These developments came while U.S. markets delivered a weak performance on Wednesday. The S & P 500 declined 0.4 percent, the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.3 percent, and the Nasdaq composite, which has a heavy concentration of technology stocks, lost 0.6 percent.