Markit's purchasing managers index for the euro zone was unchanged at 46.5 in April.
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The closely watched 17-nation euro zone PMI index, which measures both manufacturing and service sector strength, dropped to 48.7 in March.
The Dow Jones EuroStoxx index of the euro zone's 50 leading shares was up 1.4%, at 2256.78 points, around midday on the continent.
Markit Economics said its May composite purchasing managers' index for the euro zone edged up to 47.7 from April's 46.9, but still signaled contraction.
But as the rally off that low has progressed fear has disappeared, now measured at only 19 on the VIX Index, in the zone of low fear (high bullishness) usually seen near rally tops.
The European markets were also lifted on an improving Euro zone purchasing managers index, although the PMI still showed an overall contraction in November.
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The European markets and raw commodities were also lifted on an improving Euro zone purchasing managers index, although the PMI still showed an overall contraction in November.
The German Unemployment Change figures showed that 20K workers fell off the registry of the unemployed during June and the overall Euro zone Economic Sentiment Index improved to a reading of 101.3.
The euro-zone purchasing managers' index rose to a 10-month high in January, though it still points to a slight contraction in business activity.
Separately, Markit's euro-zone manufacturing purchasing managers' index for March came in at 46.8, down from 47.9 in February, but above an earlier March estimate of 46.6.
The euro zone's purchasing-managers index, a gauge of manufacturing activity, fell in November to a level consistent with a 1% quarterly drop in gross domestic product, according to research firm Capital Economics.
Not all Russell 1000 stocks break out their revenues geographically, but among those that do, RBC found that those with more than 20% of exposure to the Euro zone have significantly underperformed the broader index since July.
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of East Anglia now are working on a scale they call the "dwell time index" to calculate how much time a planet has orbited in a habitable zone, compared with the time it took life to evolve on Earth.
Worries that the euro-zone crisis was flaring up again pushed the broad MSCI Asia ex-Japan index down 1.3% on Monday.
However, the German ZEW index was released overnight and was a good reading, but weaker manufacturing growth in Euro zone worked to offset the ZEW report.
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The Stoxx Europe 600 index climbed 2.4%, as signs of further weakening of the euro-zone economy sparked hopes of a shift away from austerity and toward policies that stimulate growth.
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