European equities rose toward record highs as oil fell and investor appetite for AI trading recovered. Miners led gains on lower oil and a softer dollar; techs advanced after AI compute provider CoreWeave Inc. gave an upbeat earnings outlook and investor anticipation of an Anthropic IPO increased. Siemens Energy jumped 6.5% after saying surging demand for gas turbines and grid equipment could lift margins to as high as 22% by 2030 and helped more than double profits last year. Since the US midte

European equities rose toward record highs as oil fell and investor appetite for AI trading recovered. Miners led gains on lower oil and a softer dollar; techs advanced after AI compute provider CoreWeave Inc. gave an upbeat earnings outlook and investor anticipation of an Anthropic IPO increased. Siemens Energy jumped 6.5% after saying surging demand for gas turbines and grid equipment could lift margins to as high as 22% by 2030 and helped more than double profits last year. Since the US midterms last Wednesday the STOXX Europe 600 is up about 2% while the S&P 500 is down 0.6%. Roger Lee, head of equity strategy at Cavendish, said reduced post-midterm AI skepticism has reversed some flows in favour of non-US markets.